Engine stats - duckduckgo

Engine name

Scores

Result count

Response time

Reliability

duckduckgo

2.5

0.7

	Total	HTTP	Processing
Median	0.7	0.7	0.0
P80	0.8	0.7	0.1
P95	0.8	0.8	0.0

Errors and exceptions

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineXPathException	Percentage	5
Parameter	//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@hrefindex 0 not found
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:404
Function	response
Code	url=eval_xpath_getindex(doc, '//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 0),

Exception	IndexError	Percentage	5
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:389
Function	response
Code	item["content"] = extract_text(eval_xpath(div_result, './/a[contains(@class, "result__snippet")]')[0])

**Version of SearXNG, commit number if you are using on master branch and stipulate if you forked SearXNG**
Repository: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Branch: master
Version: 2025.3.22+5986629c6

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Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineXPathException
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `('//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 'index 0 not found')`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:404`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `url=eval_xpath_getindex(doc, '//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 0),`

Error
  * Error: IndexError
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `()`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:389`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `item["content"] = extract_text(eval_xpath(div_result, './/a[contains(@class, "result__snippet")]')[0])`

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