duqtalk

Disclaimer: this program is in an early stage of development, so it has many assertions and rough edges.

A CLI application to chat with DuckDuckGo AI (using Python and Selenium).

Please do not overuse this as to not overload DuckDuckGo AI chat service. They're already generous enough to serve us decent & privacy-respecting GenAI for free. 😉

Installation

Set up dependencies:

• firefox utility available in PATH
• geckodriver utility available in PATH
• selenium Python package

Then, simply fetch the duqtalk executable from this repo and run it (duqtalk). If you're on Windows, py -x path\to\duqtalk should hopefully do the trick.

Usage

Below invocation accepts raw textual lines and outputs responses as blocks of raw text. If the terminal is a TTY, prints a simple > prompt.

duqtalk

Below invocation is JSON mode. It accepts a line-by-line stream of JSON strings and outputs also a stream of JSON string responses.

duqtalk --json

NOTE: Current implementation cleans up the chat after each response on the browser side, so in practice there's no chat history context to drive a conversation from -- each query/response pair is completely standalone. This may change in future implementations.

Example

$ duqtalk
> Write an `ffmpeg` invocation to record current screen (in X11 desktop) (1920x1080 resolution).
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -c:v libx264 output.mp4
>
$