How to get quick answers in Google or DuckDuckGo using Python

Question

I have an AI Assistant project and I want it to search in internet. I want to use Google Quick Answer Box or DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API for Python. I saw other questions but they didn't help me so much. Here is an example what I want to achieve:

Question: What is giraffe?

Google's Answer:

DuckDuckGo's Answer:

As you can see the answers start with,

'The giraffe is an African artiodactyl mammal...'

How can I get this text using Python? (let me say 'what is giraffe' is an example. i want to use this method almost everything like 'tell me president of united states' etc.)

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '20 at 17:35

You can use duckduckgo API as suggested in the comments using :

GET https://api.duckduckgo.com?q=[your query]&format=json

Here is an example using python :

import requests

query = "What is giraffe?"

r = requests.get("https://api.duckduckgo.com",
    params = {
        "q": query,
        "format": "json"
    })

data = r.json()

print(data)

print("Abstract")
print(data["Abstract"])

Output:

The giraffe is an African artiodactyl mammal, the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. ..........

How to get quick answers in Google or DuckDuckGo using Python

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