Feature Request: Routing of unknown queries to DuckDuckGo.

[Dizzy611]

Questions of the form (question helper) is (x)? (ie what/who/where/why/how is (x)) should be routed to duckduckgo verbatim. This mirrors the way Cortana uses Bing to answer unknown queries, and is an easy way to expand functionality.

[Dizzy611]

Example interaction:

[11:50] User; @birdbot where is the taj mahal?
[11:50] BOTbirdbot: @user: Taj Mahal - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.
Further results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=where+is+the+taj+mahal

[Dizzy611]

Worth noting apparently DDG does not want you doing this for full search results (not that that has ever stopped me for small, personal-use bots like this), but a query like the above might work with their "instant answers" API which has an official endpoint:

https://duckduckgo.com/api

Maybe see if that has a useful answer first and go the unsupported full HTML parsing route only if it does not?

Probably just start out by supporting instant answers.