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Qwant API

:information_source: About

Qwant provides an unofficial, free and limit-less search API. This library aims to provide a fully featured wrapper for it.

The unofficial documentation of Qwant's API can be found in the DOCUMENTATION.md file

:postbox: NPM

:wrench: Installation

npm i qwant-api

:white_check_mark: Features

Qwant Feature support

web	images	news	social	videos	music
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Error handling
Multiple Languages

:bulb: Usage

Search:

qwant.search(<category>, { <options> }, <callback>{ /*...*/ });

Returns search results

Categories:

web
images
news
social
videos
music

Options:

Option	Required	Type	Default	Explanation
`query`	Yes	string	none	The term(s) to search
`count`	No	integer	1	The amount of results
`offset`	No	integer	0	The index of the first result
`language`	No	string	english	The language for the search

Example:

var qwant = require("qwant-api");

qwant.search("web", { query: "test", count: 10, offset: 1, language: "german" }, function(err, data){
    if (err) return console.log(err);
    console.log(data);
});

Languages:

qwant.getLanguages(<options>);

Returns a list of supported languages

Options:

Option	Required	Type	Default	Explanation
list codes	No	boolean	false	List languages and language codes

Example:

var qwant = require("qwant-api");

var languages = qwant.getLanguages();

console.log(languages);
// => ['english', 'german', 'french', 'welsh', 'scottish', ... ]

var languagesAndCodes = qwant.getLanguages(true);

console.log(languagesAndCodes);
// => { english: 'en_en', german: 'de_de', french: 'fr_fr', ... }