feat(duckduckgo): detect anti-bot challenge and surface ErrBlocked
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DuckDuckGo intermittently serves a CAPTCHA modal ("Unfortunately, bots
use DuckDuckGo too...") instead of search results. The result selector
matches zero elements on that page, so callers used to get
([]Result{}, nil) — silent empty results that look like "no matches."

Detect the challenge via the BEM class .anomaly-modal__title and return
a typed ErrBlocked so callers can distinguish blocked from no-results
and react (retry, fallback to another engine, surface to user).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-04-27 23:25:28 +00:00
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commit 841f1ec2bf
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package duckduckgo
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
"net/url"
@@ -9,6 +10,10 @@ import (
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/go-extractor"
)
// ErrBlocked is returned when DuckDuckGo serves an anti-bot challenge
// page instead of search results.
var ErrBlocked = errors.New("duckduckgo: blocked by anti-bot challenge")
type SafeSearch int
const (
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package duckduckgo
import (
"context"
"errors"
"testing"
"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/go-extractor"
@@ -106,6 +107,26 @@ func TestExtractResults_NoLinks(t *testing.T) {
}
}
func TestExtractResults_Blocked(t *testing.T) {
doc := &extractortest.MockDocument{
MockNode: extractortest.MockNode{
Children: map[string]extractor.Nodes{
".anomaly-modal__title": {
&extractortest.MockNode{TextValue: "Unfortunately, bots use DuckDuckGo too."},
},
},
},
}
results, err := extractResults(doc)
if !errors.Is(err, ErrBlocked) {
t.Fatalf("expected ErrBlocked, got %v", err)
}
if results != nil {
t.Errorf("expected nil results when blocked, got %v", results)
}
}
func TestSearch_UsesMockBrowser(t *testing.T) {
doc := &extractortest.MockDocument{
URLValue: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test",
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@@ -23,9 +23,17 @@ func (s searchPage) GetResults() ([]Result, error) {
}
// extractResults parses search results from a DuckDuckGo results page.
//
// If the page is an anti-bot challenge ("Unfortunately, bots use DuckDuckGo
// too...") rather than results, returns ErrBlocked so callers can distinguish
// "blocked" from "no matches."
func extractResults(doc extractor.Node) ([]Result, error) {
var res []Result
if isBlocked(doc) {
return nil, ErrBlocked
}
err := doc.ForEach(`article[id^="r1-"]`, func(n extractor.Node) error {
var r Result
@@ -68,6 +76,12 @@ func extractResults(doc extractor.Node) ([]Result, error) {
return res, err
}
// isBlocked reports whether the page is the DuckDuckGo anti-bot challenge
// modal (".anomaly-modal__title") rather than a normal results page.
func isBlocked(doc extractor.Node) bool {
return len(doc.Select(".anomaly-modal__title")) > 0
}
func (s searchPage) LoadMore() error {
return s.doc.ForEach(`button#more-results`, func(n extractor.Node) error {
slog.Info("clicking load more", "node", n)