Changed #

• Updated repository URLs to kamranxdev/ddgs
• Updated copyright holder to kamranxdev

Changed #

• Package maintenance update

Added #

• Initial Dart implementation of DDGS metasearch library
• Support for 10 search engines (7 text + 3 specialized):
  • Text: Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Yandex
  • Images: DuckDuckGo Images
  • Videos: DuckDuckGo Videos
  • News: DuckDuckGo News
• CLI tool with comprehensive command-line interface
• Async/await API for all search operations
• Proxy support (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5)
• Region and language support
• Safe search filtering
• Time-based filtering
• Result deduplication
• Configurable timeout
• Extensible engine architecture

Features #

• Multi-engine metasearch aggregation
• Text, image, video, and news search capabilities
• Exception handling (DDGSException, RatelimitException, TimeoutException)
• HTML and JSON parsing for different search engines
• VQD authentication for DuckDuckGo APIs
• URL unwrapping for Bing and Yahoo results

Documentation #

• Comprehensive README with usage examples
• API documentation
• CLI usage guide with testing instructions
• Contributing guidelines
• MIT License

Notes #

• ⚠️ Google engine removed due to consistent anti-scraping blocking
• ✅ DuckDuckGo set as default backend for reliability
• ✅ All 10 remaining engines tested and working

[Unreleased] #

Planned #

• Books search implementation
• Additional reliable search engine backends
• Result caching
• Rate limiting improvements
• Performance optimizations