duckduck_answer: Call DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API

In duckduckr: Simple Client for the DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API

Description

Makes a synchronous API call to the DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API. Take a look at DuckDuckGo's terms of use (https://api.duckduckgo.com/api) before using it.

Usage

duckduck_answer(query, no_redirect = FALSE, no_html = FALSE,
  skip_disambig = FALSE, app_name = "duckduckr")

Arguments

query	the query string
no_redirect	TRUE to skip HTTP redirects (for !bang commands)
no_html	TRUE to remove html from results
skip_disambig	TRUE to to skip disambiguation (D) Type.
app_name	the appname used to identify your application.

Value

Always returns a list. If the API call was successful it contains the response of the duckduckgo API as parsed by fromJSON. In addition the object's attributes contain additional meta data. Especially the status attribute indicates if something went wrong during the HTTP call or parsing of the JSON text.

In case the call was successful the status attribute is equal to "OK".

In case something went wrong, the status attribute is equal to "error" and in the error attribute you will find more information. In particular the type, which is either "http_error" or "json_parse_error" depending on the error's source.

In case of a "http_error", there is an additional message and http_status element.

In case of "json_parse_error", there is an additional message element.

In addition there is always a source element with the URL used to query the data.

See Also

https://api.duckduckgo.com/api for more information on the API and their terms of use.

Examples

## Not run: 
tmp <- duckduck_answer("duckduckgo")
tmp$Abstract

## End(Not run)

duckduckr documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:22 a.m.