ask.py

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""Ask.com"""
 
from urllib.parse import urlencode
import dateutil
from lxml import html
from searx import utils
 
# Metadata
about = {
    "website": "https://www.ask.com/",
    "wikidata_id": 'Q847564',
    "official_api_documentation": None,
    "use_official_api": False,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": "HTML",
}
 
# Engine Configuration
categories = ['general']
paging = True
max_page = 5
 
# Base URL
base_url = "https://www.ask.com/web"
 
 
def request(query, params):
 
    query_params = {
        "q": query,
        "page": params["pageno"],
    }
 
    params["url"] = f"{base_url}?{urlencode(query_params)}"
    return params
 
 
def response(resp):
 
    start_tag = 'window.MESON.initialState = {'
    end_tag = '}};'
 
    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
    script = utils.eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//script', 0, default=None).text
 
    pos = script.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) - 1
    script = script[pos:]
    pos = script.index(end_tag) + len(end_tag) - 1
    script = script[:pos]
 
    json_resp = utils.js_variable_to_python(script)
 
    results = []
 
    for item in json_resp['search']['webResults']['results']:
 
        pubdate_original = item.get('pubdate_original')
        if pubdate_original:
            pubdate_original = dateutil.parser.parse(pubdate_original)
        metadata = [item.get(field) for field in ['category_l1', 'catsy'] if item.get(field)]
 
        results.append(
            {
                "url": item['url'].split('&ueid')[0],
                "title": item['title'],
                "content": item['abstract'],
                "publishedDate": pubdate_original,
                # "thumbnail": item.get('image_url') or None, # these are not thumbs / to large
                "metadata": ' | '.join(metadata),
            }
        )
 
    return results