base.py

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""BASE (Scholar publications)
 
"""
from datetime import datetime
import re
 
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from lxml import etree
from searx.utils import searx_useragent
 
# about
about = {
    "website": 'https://base-search.net',
    "wikidata_id": 'Q448335',
    "official_api_documentation": 'https://api.base-search.net/',
    "use_official_api": True,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": 'XML',
}
 
categories = ['science']
 
base_url = (
    'https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi'
    + '?func=PerformSearch&{query}&boost=oa&hits={hits}&offset={offset}'
)
 
# engine dependent config
paging = True
number_of_results = 10
 
# shortcuts for advanced search
shorcut_dict = {
    # user-friendly keywords
    'format:': 'dcformat:',
    'author:': 'dccreator:',
    'collection:': 'dccollection:',
    'hdate:': 'dchdate:',
    'contributor:': 'dccontributor:',
    'coverage:': 'dccoverage:',
    'date:': 'dcdate:',
    'abstract:': 'dcdescription:',
    'urls:': 'dcidentifier:',
    'language:': 'dclanguage:',
    'publisher:': 'dcpublisher:',
    'relation:': 'dcrelation:',
    'rights:': 'dcrights:',
    'source:': 'dcsource:',
    'subject:': 'dcsubject:',
    'title:': 'dctitle:',
    'type:': 'dcdctype:',
}
 
 
def request(query, params):
    # replace shortcuts with API advanced search keywords
    for key, val in shorcut_dict.items():
        query = re.sub(key, val, query)
 
    # basic search
    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * number_of_results
 
    string_args = {
        'query': urlencode({'query': query}),
        'offset': offset,
        'hits': number_of_results,
    }
 
    params['url'] = base_url.format(**string_args)
 
    params['headers']['User-Agent'] = searx_useragent()
    return params
 
 
def response(resp):
    results = []
 
    search_results = etree.XML(resp.content)
 
    for entry in search_results.xpath('./result/doc'):
        content = "No description available"
 
        date = datetime.now()  # needed in case no dcdate is available for an item
        for item in entry:
            if item.attrib["name"] == "dcdate":
                date = item.text
 
            elif item.attrib["name"] == "dctitle":
                title = item.text
 
            elif item.attrib["name"] == "dclink":
                url = item.text
 
            elif item.attrib["name"] == "dcdescription":
                content = item.text[:300]
                if len(item.text) > 300:
                    content += "..."
 
        # dates returned by the BASE API are not several formats
        publishedDate = None
        for date_format in ['%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', '%Y-%m-%d', '%Y-%m', '%Y']:
            try:
                publishedDate = datetime.strptime(date, date_format)
                break
            except:  # pylint: disable=bare-except
                pass
 
        if publishedDate is not None:
            res_dict = {'url': url, 'title': title, 'publishedDate': publishedDate, 'content': content}
        else:
            res_dict = {'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content}
 
        results.append(res_dict)
 
    return results