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We're (DuckDuckGo) happy to see the response to this! Our instant answers are open source and we'd love to have one for every possible search, no matter how niche.

If anyone's interested in suggesting or creating an instant answer, check out: http://duckduckhack.com/

Also--to see most of the current IAs, look here: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies



Adding onto this (I don't work for DDG), seriously check out the zeroclickinfo project[0] if you're looking to do some open-source over the coming holidays. I wrote a SoundCloud instant answer[1] and it was my first contribution to open-source (a little less than a year ago).

That one pull request led to many others that have opened a lot of doors for me. It's a super approachable codebase and I had a lot of fun with it.

[0]: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Music/soundcloud_ray_bradbury




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