How to handle the following excception?
duckduckgo_search.exceptions.DuckDuckGoSearchException: DuckDuckGo 202
Ratelimit
tools=[DuckDuckGoTools(timeout=10)]
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I encountered this error too. Seems like DuckDuckGo API ratelimiting, but couldn’t find any info about actual allowed values of requests per something anywhere…
This is serious issue.
WARNING Could not run function duckduckgo_search(query=blabla, max_results=1)
ERROR https://html.duckduckgo.com/html 202 Ratelimit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../lib/python3.12/site-packages/agno/tools/function.py", line 475, in execute
result = self.function.entrypoint(**entrypoint_args, **self.arguments)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".../lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydantic/_internal/_validate_call.py", line 39, in wrapper_function
return wrapper(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".../lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydantic/_internal/_validate_call.py", line 136, in __call__
res = self.__pydantic_validator__.validate_python(pydantic_core.ArgsKwargs(args, kwargs))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".../lib/python3.12/site-packages/agno/tools/duckduckgo.py", line 74, in duckduckgo_search
return json.dumps(ddgs.text(keywords=search_query, max_results=actual_max_results), indent=2)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".../lib/python3.12/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py", line 211, in text
raise DuckDuckGoSearchException(err)
duckduckgo_search.exceptions.DuckDuckGoSearchException: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html 202 Ratelimit
2025-04-18 09:59:16,741 - INFO - LLM response: I am sorry, I cannot access the internet right now.
Hi @ybonda ! The DuckDuckGo API is free to use and hence has ratelimit set up by them. Ideally it is useful for prototyping. For reliable searching I would recommend switching to another search tool.
Here’s the list of all the search tools: Toolkit Index - Agno
Thanks for your reply. Can you suggest any other available search tools? Seems like there is only google search tool…
We need to implement a custom tool for DuckDuckGo search where we can add time to maintain the requests.
Hey,
You can use Exa, FireCrawl, etc
You can find more details and options here: Toolkit Index - Agno