Instant Answers are an opportunity for anyone to create their own search results.
Instant Answers appear on DuckDuckGo.com above ads and organic links, on millions of searches. Instant Answers are created by an open source community of developers around the world like you. Welcome!
You can find the full documentation here.
For every search, there can be a great Instant Answer. Use these docs and help from the community to create Instant Answers for the searches you care about or do most frequently!
If you'd like to help us with something specific, we're aiming to have multiple Instant Answers for every programming language and framework. Help us fill in the blanks.
Learn by exploring!
- Check out the current Instant Answers for inspiration.
- Watch videos on creating Instant Answers.
Learn by example! Read through the tutorials for Instant Answers we've built in the past. All of these are self-contained and will get you up and running.
- (Beginner Progammers) Create a programming syntax cheat sheet.
- (Intermediate Programmers) Create an Instant Answer that performs calculations.
- (Experienced Programmers) Use your favorite API to build an Instant Answer.
We welcome new contributors to dive in and improve live Instant Answers. It's a great, hands-on way to learn how things work!
- Start by setting up your development environment
- Tackle some of the "low-hanging fruit" and, "high priority" issues on our Live Issues Page
- Help other DuckDuckHackers with their Instant Answers in development
- Suggest improvements & file bugs for live Instant Answers through the, "Create Issue" button on each IA page
Instant Answers allow you to create your own search results. Here are some examples of what contributors have created. You can see all live Instant Answers listed here.
Instant Answers can be quite dynamic...
...or simply convenient:
Some are just cool:
Many are absolutely delightful and unexpected:
Many are super practical...
...in ways we never imagined:
Some Instant Answers are built from pure code:
Other Instant Answers channel external sources (API requests):
The possibilities are endless. Our community's mission is to cover every topic with a community-generated Instant Answer.
Want help? Need to think out loud?
We're a digital community, but real people - we frequently meet up to hack together. Check out our global meetups.
You can find the full documentation here.