[zeech]

IIRC the reason they don't (can't?) provide a search API directly is because they're pulling from other search sources, e.g. Bing, and can't provide an API without licence violations.

Agreed that a DDG API would be pretty great, though.

[Imustaskforhelp]

IF they wish for an API, I think brave search supports API because they are an independent search index.

[verdverm]

There are lots of options outside of the companies that make browsers and search input boxes on websites

SERP, EXA, Tavily... they are becoming a dime-a-dozen with the Ai hype b/c (1) making the process of fetch/scraping easier (2) being the primary end user of search API (3) making the creating of such an API easier

I haven't dug in enough to any of them to get a sense of result quality or consistency