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DDGS

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This tutorial is a community contribution and is not supported by the Open WebUI team. It serves only as a demonstration on how to customize Open WebUI for your specific use case. Want to contribute? Check out the contributing tutorial.

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For a comprehensive list of all environment variables related to Web Search (including concurrency settings, result counts, and more), please refer to the Environment Configuration documentation.

Troubleshooting

Having issues with web search? Check out the Web Search Troubleshooting Guide for solutions to common problems like proxy configuration, connection timeouts, and empty content.

DDGS is a metasearch engine that allows you to search multiple providers through a single interface.

Setup​

  1. Enable Web Search in the Admin Settings.
  2. Select DDGS as the Web Search Engine.
  3. Choose your desired DDGS Backend from the dropdown menu.

DDGS Backend Options​

  • Auto (Random): Randomly selects from available providers.
  • Bing
  • Brave
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Google
  • Grokipedia
  • Mojeek
  • Wikipedia
  • Yahoo
  • Yandex

Environment Variable​

You can also configure the backend using the DDGS_BACKEND environment variable.

DDGS_BACKEND="google"