Output schema

--output json returns an array of result objects.

[
  {
    "title": "Example page",
    "url": "https://example.com/page",
    "display_url": "example.com/page",
    "snippet": "Search-result summary",
    "content": "Source: https://example.com/page\n\nExtracted page text",
    "bm25_score": 1.42,
    "engine": "duckduckgo",
    "query": "example query",
    "engine_rank": 1,
    "sources": [
      {
        "engine": "duckduckgo",
        "query": "example query",
        "rank": 1
      }
    ]
  }
]

Fields

Field	Type	Description
`title`	string	Result title reported by the search provider.
`url`	string	Destination URL.
`display_url`	string	Short URL displayed by the provider.
`snippet`	string	Search-result snippet.
`content`	string or null	Extracted page text prefixed by its source URL. It is null when fetching is disabled, skipped, or unsuccessful.
`bm25_score`	number, optional	Local relevance score added when fetching and ranking are enabled.
`engine`	string	Provider that supplied the retained result.
`query`	string	Query that supplied the retained result.
`engine_rank`	integer	Position in the originating provider result list.
`sources`	array	Every provider and query occurrence merged into the canonical URL.

Field presence can vary with command options. Consumers should tolerate a null content value and a missing bm25_score.