A fast, local-first "redirection engine" for !bang users with a few extra features ^-^
dunkirk.sh
1# Unduckified
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5> This is a fork of [t3dotgg/unduck](https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck). Check out Theo's hosted version at [unduck.link](https://unduck.link) for the original experience.
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7## Quick Start
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9Add this URL as a custom search engine to your browser to use DuckDuckGo's bangs, but faster:
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11```
12https://s.dunkirk.sh?q=%s
13```
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15## How is it that much faster?
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17DuckDuckGo does their redirects server side. Their DNS is...not always great. Result is that it often takes ages.
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19I solved this by doing all of the work client side. Once you've went to https://s.dunkirk.sh once, the JS is all cached and will never need to be downloaded again. Your device does the redirects, not me or any other server.
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21## How is this different from Theo's version again?
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23This is primarily my personal fork to experiment with PWAs but I do have a few ideas that I would love to add to this.
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25<img align="right" width="140" height="140" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taciturnaxolotl/unduckified/main/public/goose.gif" alt="goose walking animation"/>
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27- [x] Bangs
28- [x] Dark Mode
29- [x] Settings (for things like disabling search history and changing default bang)
30- [x] Search counter
31- [x] [OpenSearch](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XML/Guides/OpenSearch) support
32- [x] Search History (clearable, all local, and disabled by default ofc)
33- [x] Fancy sounds (disabled if you have `prefers-reduced-motion` set; sounds only account for `198.5 KB` of the `717.4 KB` total size)
34- [x] Cute little text animations
35- [x] Auto updating bangs file! (I'm using a [GitHub Action](https://github.com/taciturnaxolotl/unduckified/actions/workflows/update-bangs.yaml) to update the bangs file every 24 hours)
36- [x] Hashmapped bangs for faster searching
37- [x] local font file to avoid google fonts
38- [x] redirects to the base page of a bang if there is no query (e.g. `!g` will take you to google.com and `!yt` will take you to youtube.com)
39- [x] Suffix bangs (e.g. `ghr! taciturnaxolotl/unduckified` will take you to this github repo)
40- [x] Quick settings (e.g. `!settings` or `!` will take you to the settings page)
41- [x] Custom local bangs! (thanks to [@ayoubabedrabbo@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@ayoubabedrabbo/114114311682366314) for the suggestion)
42- [x] Kagi bangs! We are able to grab the bangs from [kagisearch/bangs](https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs/) and Kagi is far more responsive than DuckDuckGo when it comes to updating their bangs.
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44I would love to add these but they don't seem possible / feasible at the moment:
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46- [ ] ~Search suggestions~ (as far as I can tell this essentially impossible to do natively with either firefox or chrome; please correct me if I'm wrong though. In this case I would very much love to be wrong)
47- [x] ~Weekly bang checks to ensure that all bangs still work and excludes those that don't~ this ended up being unreliable because of cloudflare rate limiting and switching to kagi bangs helped a lot with this
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49## Screenshots
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51<details>
52 <summary>Spoiler Alert: There is both a light and a dark mode 🤯 (shocking i know)</summary>
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54### Light Mode
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60### Dark Mode (the superior mode)
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66</details>
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68<p align="center">
69 <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taciturnaxolotl/carriage/main/.github/images/line-break.svg" />
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72<p align="center">
73 <i><code>© 2025-present <a href="https://github.com/taciturnaxolotl">Kieran Klukas</a> forked from <a href="https://github.com/t3dotgg/unduck">t3dotgg/unduck</a></code></i>
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77 <a href="https://github.com/taciturnaxolotl/unduckified/blob/main/LICENSE.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/static/v1.svg?style=for-the-badge&label=License&message=MIT&logoColor=d9e0ee&colorA=363a4f&colorB=b7bdf8"/></a>
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