DuckDuckGo image-search api for node
npm install duckduckgo-images-api
npm i duckduckgo-images-api
`
When using TypeScript, run:
`
npm i @types/duckduckgo-images-api
`
The package provides simple async api. And uses following config object as input:
`javascript
{
query: "search term",
moderate : false,
iterations : 2 ,
retries : 2
}
`
- query param is mandatory
- moderate (optional) to moderate search results if none provided defaults to moderation off (false)
- iterations (optional) limit the number of result sets fetched, default 2
- retries (optional) limit retries per iteration, default 2
image_search function return a promise that resolves to array of complete results.
`javascript
image_search({ query: "birds", moderate: true }).then(results=>console.log(results))
`
image_search_generator function is a async generator that yield promise of result set on each iteration. Useful for large iterations. Please check the node version compatability for this syntax.
`javascript
async function main(){
for await (let resultSet of image_search_generator({ query: "birds", moderate: true ,iterations :4})){
console.log(resultSet)
}
}
main().catch(console.log);
``