Added DuckDuckGo Search Tool and Agent in AutoGen Extensions #6682

varadsrivastava · 2025-06-16T20:51:11Z

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Adds a specialized AutoGen agent that uses DuckDuckGo for web searches, providing privacy-focused search capabilities without requiring API keys.

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varadsrivastava · 2025-06-16T20:52:18Z

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python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/agents/duckduckgo_search/_duckduckgo_agent.py

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/tools/web_search/_duckduckgo_search.py

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/agents/__init__.py

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/agents/duckduckgo_search/README.md

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/tools/__init__.py

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/tools/web_search/_duckduckgo_search.py

1. Added return_value_as_string function, added corresponding example in API doc 2. Removed some stray inits still present, and fixed imports

undo truncate content in output which was done for testing

python/packages/autogen-ext/src/autogen_ext/tools/web_search/_duckduckgo_search.py

varadsrivastava · 2025-07-01T21:02:53Z

Hi Eric (@ekzhu), really appreciate your help and review on this one! :) Could you please let me know if there's anything else needed before we could merge this?

ekzhu · 2025-07-06T21:30:23Z

@varadsrivastava there are still many issues with the PR. If you are using code generation tool I recommend adding existing unit tests as part of the context to properly generate unit tests. Also, make sure to run type checks and unit tests locally before requesting for review.

I am fixing this for you this time. In the future please follow the developer guide.

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ekzhu · 2025-07-09T17:58:40Z

Dear @varadsrivastava, unfortunately we had to remove these changes from our code base because of potential DMCA violation. You are welcome to contribute it as an independent package autogen-ext-duckduckgo-search and publish the source code to GitHub with tag autogen for discovery.

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