This is not necessarily a lynx problem. You may be encountering duckduckgo's anti bot algorithms.
-- Rudy Vener Beast Hunt Vol 1, containing my short story Dragon Wing, is loose in the wild: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPN1QGGJ Latest Limerick - AI Inserts Nonsense Terms Into Scientific Papers https://limerickdude.substack.com/p/ai-inserts-nonsense-terms-into-scientific Website: http://www.rudyvener.com On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 09:09:48AM +0200, Yvan Lengwiler wrote: > Dear Lynx team, > > If I use lite.duckduckgo.com to search for "lynx browser", I do get a list > of legitimate links. I can do this repeatedly and I get the same result > each time, as it should be. > > If I use lynx -dump https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q="lynx browser", > however, I see the same list of links the first time (OUTPUT 1 below). > However, on subsequent runs, I get nothing usable (OUTPUT 2 below). > > Because this problem does not occur if I search inside lynx (without > -dump), the problem cannot be with duckduckgo but has to be with lynx -dump. > > Am I doing something wrong? Can you help? > > > **** OUTPUT 1 > **************************************************************** > > #[1]DuckDuckGo (Lite) > > DuckDuckGo > > [2]lynx browser_________________________ [3]Search > > [4][(1)__All Regions_____] [5][(1)__Any Time__] > > [6]Next Page > > > Zero-click info: [7]Lynx (web browser) > Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on > cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2025, it is the > oldest web browser still being maintained, having started in 1992. > [8]More at "Wikipedia" > > 1. [9]Lynx (web browser) - Wikipedia > Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on > cursor-addressable character cell terminals. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, > Gopher, FTP, NNTP and WAIS protocols, and can launch external programs > to handle non-text content. > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) > > 2. [10]browser - Lynx Information > Lynx . Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Lynx 2.9.2 > runs on Un*x, MacOS, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+ (but not 3.1, > 3.11), as well as OS/2 EMX. The current developmental version is also > available for testing. Many user questions are answered in the online > help provided with Lynx. Press the '?' key to find this help. > lynx.browser.org > > [...] > > 10. [18]Lynx2.9.0 - lynx.invisible-island.net > This supersedes Lynx v2.9.1. The following v2.9.2 files are > available for downloading: CHANGES - changes made since version 2-8 > lynx2.9.2.zip - the distribution file lynx2.9.2.tar.gz - the > distribution in gzip'd tar format lynx2.9.2.tar.bz2 - the distribution > in bzip2'd tar format. Here is the Lynx online help. > lynx.invisible-island.net/release/ 2024-05-31T00:00:00.0000000 > > References > > 1. https://duckduckgo.com/opensearch_lite_v2.xml > 2. form field = text entry field > 3. form field = submit button > 4. form field = popup menu > 5. form field = popup menu > 6. form field = submit button > 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) > 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) > 9. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)&rut=b9572ebd63ebe71a8067784a72c9d02d0128c11d10747cf6a2bb7deee09f602a > 10. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://lynx.browser.org/&rut=c4eac16ac8481474be2cc0087177a6f96faa6379ab017520a49e626ab5058a6b > 11. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://lynx.invisible-island.net/&rut=a133ea2391a9f075a0df27e05a1bf1136955b1d63ec6d13770c89b8fd2dd87d4 > 12. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://windowsreport.com/lynx-web-browser/&rut=97af3498c9b791f7b59866083cfcd8fd22fb8ee72cf8f7a639a2f218bc0388fc > 13. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/using-lynx-to-browse-the-web-from-the-linux-terminal/&rut=5217dabee9f35eff69b58b83d76898b365137addbef2c229526d81601f981088 > 14. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html&rut=36e6020d626574df6edf1579ec932cb8d64f2218f122308d302887d78a070411 > 15. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://discover.hubpages.com/technology/lynx-a-minimalist-text-based-web-browser&rut=0213def844e3689bbb5012b51f8299297f2988f00db11c9a2e3c4e26fceb124a > 16. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Lynx_(web_browser)&rut=2b8b382c2663f0d47aa9d3a3ae8ba490e58cf1e493b91e5c49458cbda1779978 > 17. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://invisible-island.net/lynx/&rut=6c51ece5915dab0101667b5aaeeea3d89b2f7f348d1831b77a3afb1ab44b4c7f > 18. > https://duckduckgo.com/l/?uddg=https://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/&rut=2cdcf9c1e4423cb6b6e7f476fc7089877115f15a5f6300f135d61a9d956f1cec > 19. form field = submit button > 20. form field = text entry field > 21. form field = submit button > > > > **** OUTPUT 2 > **************************************************************** > > If this persists, please [1]email us. > Our support email address includes an anonymized error code that helps > us understand the context of your search. > > References > > 1. mailto:error-lite+4...@duckduckgo.com?subject=Error getting results
