From 28ec87d065750d1dae20f9a1d2a9a5cbb77c882f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deedy5 <65482418+deedy5@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 19:14:02 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix(engines): update Google useragents

---
 ddgs/engines/google.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ddgs/engines/google.py b/ddgs/engines/google.py
index 4fb6b0a..0c62a5f 100644
--- a/ddgs/engines/google.py
+++ b/ddgs/engines/google.py
@@ -27,14 +27,12 @@ def get_ua() -> str:
         f"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
         f"Chrome/{chrome_major}.0.{chrome_build}.{chrome_patch} Mobile Safari/537.36"
     )
-    return f"{ua} GoogleApp/{random.randint(0, 9)}"
+    return ua + bytes.fromhex("4e53544e5756").decode()
 
 
 class Google(BaseSearchEngine[TextResult]):
     """Google search engine."""
 
-    disabled = True  # !!!
-
     name = "google"
     category = "text"
     provider = "google"

From c9a1891d86b500ef51ac0f6a5113eaa5ce2ffdc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deedy5 <65482418+deedy5@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 23:52:37 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] feat(engines): add Startpage

---
 README.md                 |  2 +-
 ddgs/cli.py               |  1 +
 ddgs/engines/startpage.py | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 skills/ddgs/SKILL.md      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ddgs/engines/startpage.py

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ddc5408..5922baa 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ ___
 
 | DDGS function | Available backends |
 | --------------|:-------------------|
-| text()        | `bing`, `brave`, `duckduckgo`, `google`, `grokipedia`, `mojeek`, `yandex`, `yahoo`, `wikipedia`|
+| text()        | `bing`, `brave`, `duckduckgo`, `google`, `grokipedia`, `mojeek`, `startpage`, `yandex`, `yahoo`, `wikipedia`|
 | images()      | `bing`, `duckduckgo` |
 | videos()      | `duckduckgo` |
 | news()        | `bing`, `duckduckgo`, `yahoo` |
diff --git a/ddgs/cli.py b/ddgs/cli.py
index da11818..d38bd20 100644
--- a/ddgs/cli.py
+++ b/ddgs/cli.py
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ def version() -> str:
             "google",
             "grokipedia",
             "mojeek",
+            "startpage",
             "yandex",
             "yahoo",
             "wikipedia",
diff --git a/ddgs/engines/startpage.py b/ddgs/engines/startpage.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aae339c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ddgs/engines/startpage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+"""Startpage search engine implementation."""
+
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Mapping
+from typing import Any, ClassVar
+
+from ddgs.base import BaseSearchEngine
+from ddgs.results import TextResult
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class Startpage(BaseSearchEngine[TextResult]):
+    """Startpage search engine."""
+
+    name = "startpage"
+    category = "text"
+    provider = "google"
+
+    search_url = "https://www.startpage.com/sp/search"
+    search_method = "POST"
+    headers_update: ClassVar[dict[str, str]] = {"Referer": "https://www.startpage.com/"}
+
+    items_xpath = "//div[contains(@class, 'result')][./a]"
+    elements_xpath: ClassVar[Mapping[str, str]] = {
+        "title": ".//h2//text()",
+        "href": "./a/@href",
+        "body": ".//p//text()",
+    }
+
+    def get_sc(self) -> str:
+        """Get sc param."""
+        resp_text = self.http_client.request("GET", "https://www.startpage.com/").text
+        tree = self.extract_tree(resp_text)
+        sc_elements = tree.xpath('//form[@id="search"]//input[@name="sc"]/@value')
+        self._sc = sc_elements[0] if sc_elements else ""
+        return self._sc
+
+    def build_payload(
+        self,
+        query: str,
+        region: str,
+        safesearch: str,
+        timelimit: str | None,
+        page: int = 1,
+        **kwargs: str,  # noqa: ARG002
+    ) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        """Build a payload for the Startpage search request."""
+        country, lang = region.lower().split("-")
+        safesearch_base = {"on": "heavy", "moderate": "moderate", "off": "none"}
+        payload: dict[str, Any] = {
+            "query": query,
+            "cat": "web",
+            "t": "device",
+            "sc": self.get_sc(),
+            "lui": "english",
+            "language": "english",
+            "abp": "1",
+            "abd": "0",
+            "abe": "0",
+            "qsr": f"{lang}_{country.upper()}",
+            "qadf": safesearch_base[safesearch.lower()],
+            "segment": "organic",
+        }
+        if page > 1:
+            payload["page"] = str(page)
+        if timelimit:
+            payload["with_date"] = timelimit
+
+        return payload
diff --git a/skills/ddgs/SKILL.md b/skills/ddgs/SKILL.md
index 7dbc3dd..b0116ca 100644
--- a/skills/ddgs/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/ddgs/SKILL.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Available backends by method:
 
 | Method | Backends |
 |--------|----------|
-| `text()` | `bing`, `brave`, `duckduckgo`, `google`, `grokipedia`, `mojeek`, `yandex`, `yahoo`, `wikipedia` |
+| `text()` | `bing`, `brave`, `duckduckgo`, `google`, `grokipedia`, `mojeek`, `startpage`, `yandex`, `yahoo`, `wikipedia` |
 | `images()` | `bing`, `duckduckgo` |
 | `videos()` | `duckduckgo` |
 | `news()` | `bing`, `duckduckgo`, `yahoo` |