brave.py

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""Brave supports the categories listed in :py:obj:`brave_category` (General,
news, videos, images).  The support of :py:obj:`paging` and :py:obj:`time range
<time_range_support>` is limited (see remarks).
 
Configured ``brave`` engines:
 
.. code:: yaml
 
  - name: brave
    engine: brave
    ...
    brave_category: search
    time_range_support: true
    paging: true
 
  - name: brave.images
    engine: brave
    ...
    brave_category: images
 
  - name: brave.videos
    engine: brave
    ...
    brave_category: videos
 
  - name: brave.news
    engine: brave
    ...
    brave_category: news
 
  - name: brave.goggles
    brave_category: goggles
    time_range_support: true
    paging: true
    ...
    brave_category: goggles
 
 
.. _brave regions:
 
Brave regions
=============
 
Brave uses two-digit tags for the regions like ``ca`` while SearXNG deals with
locales.  To get a mapping, all *officiat de-facto* languages of the Brave
region are mapped to regions in SearXNG (see :py:obj:`babel
<babel.languages.get_official_languages>`):
 
.. code:: python
 
    "regions": {
      ..
      "en-CA": "ca",
      "fr-CA": "ca",
      ..
     }
 
 
.. note::
 
   The language (aka region) support of Brave's index is limited to very basic
   languages.  The search results for languages like Chinese or Arabic are of
   low quality.
 
 
.. _brave googles:
 
Brave Goggles
=============
 
.. _list of Goggles: https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover
.. _Goggles Whitepaper: https://brave.com/static-assets/files/goggles.pdf
.. _Goggles Quickstart: https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart
 
Goggles allow you to choose, alter, or extend the ranking of Brave Search
results (`Goggles Whitepaper`_).  Goggles are openly developed by the community
of Brave Search users.
 
Select from the `list of Goggles`_ people have published, or create your own
(`Goggles Quickstart`_).
 
 
.. _brave languages:
 
Brave languages
===============
 
Brave's language support is limited to the UI (menus, area local notations,
etc).  Brave's index only seems to support a locale, but it does not seem to
support any languages in its index.  The choice of available languages is very
small (and its not clear to me where the difference in UI is when switching
from en-us to en-ca or en-gb).
 
In the :py:obj:`EngineTraits object <searx.enginelib.traits.EngineTraits>` the
UI languages are stored in a custom field named ``ui_lang``:
 
.. code:: python
 
    "custom": {
      "ui_lang": {
        "ca": "ca",
        "de-DE": "de-de",
        "en-CA": "en-ca",
        "en-GB": "en-gb",
        "en-US": "en-us",
        "es": "es",
        "fr-CA": "fr-ca",
        "fr-FR": "fr-fr",
        "ja-JP": "ja-jp",
        "pt-BR": "pt-br",
        "sq-AL": "sq-al"
      }
    },
 
Implementations
===============
 
"""
 
from typing import Any, TYPE_CHECKING
 
from urllib.parse import (
    urlencode,
    urlparse,
)
 
from dateutil import parser
from lxml import html
 
from searx import locales
from searx.utils import (
    extract_text,
    extr,
    eval_xpath,
    eval_xpath_list,
    eval_xpath_getindex,
    js_variable_to_python,
    get_embeded_stream_url,
)
from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits
 
if TYPE_CHECKING:
    import logging
 
    logger: logging.Logger
 
traits: EngineTraits
 
about = {
    "website": 'https://search.brave.com/',
    "wikidata_id": 'Q22906900',
    "official_api_documentation": None,
    "use_official_api": False,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": 'HTML',
}
 
base_url = "https://search.brave.com/"
categories = []
brave_category = 'search'
Goggles = Any
"""Brave supports common web-search, videos, images, news, and goggles search.
 
- ``search``: Common WEB search
- ``videos``: search for videos
- ``images``: search for images
- ``news``: search for news
- ``goggles``: Common WEB search with custom rules
"""
 
brave_spellcheck = False
"""Brave supports some kind of spell checking.  When activated, Brave tries to
fix typos, e.g. it searches for ``food`` when the user queries for ``fooh``.  In
the UI of Brave the user gets warned about this, since we can not warn the user
in SearXNG, the spellchecking is disabled by default.
"""
 
send_accept_language_header = True
paging = False
"""Brave only supports paging in :py:obj:`brave_category` ``search`` (UI
category All) and in the goggles category."""
max_page = 10
"""Tested 9 pages maximum (``&offset=8``), to be save max is set to 10.  Trying
to do more won't return any result and you will most likely be flagged as a bot.
"""
 
safesearch = True
safesearch_map = {2: 'strict', 1: 'moderate', 0: 'off'}  # cookie: safesearch=off
 
time_range_support = False
"""Brave only supports time-range in :py:obj:`brave_category` ``search`` (UI
category All) and in the goggles category."""
 
time_range_map = {
    'day': 'pd',
    'week': 'pw',
    'month': 'pm',
    'year': 'py',
}
 
 
def request(query, params):
 
    # Don't accept br encoding / see https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1787
    params['headers']['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip, deflate'
 
    args = {
        'q': query,
    }
    if brave_spellcheck:
        args['spellcheck'] = '1'
 
    if brave_category in ('search', 'goggles'):
        if params.get('pageno', 1) - 1:
            args['offset'] = params.get('pageno', 1) - 1
        if time_range_map.get(params['time_range']):
            args['tf'] = time_range_map.get(params['time_range'])
 
    if brave_category == 'goggles':
        args['goggles_id'] = Goggles
 
    params["url"] = f"{base_url}{brave_category}?{urlencode(args)}"
 
    # set properties in the cookies
 
    params['cookies']['safesearch'] = safesearch_map.get(params['safesearch'], 'off')
    # the useLocation is IP based, we use cookie 'country' for the region
    params['cookies']['useLocation'] = '0'
    params['cookies']['summarizer'] = '0'
 
    engine_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], 'all')
    params['cookies']['country'] = engine_region.split('-')[-1].lower()  # type: ignore
 
    ui_lang = locales.get_engine_locale(params['searxng_locale'], traits.custom["ui_lang"], 'en-us')
    params['cookies']['ui_lang'] = ui_lang
 
    logger.debug("cookies %s", params['cookies'])
 
 
def _extract_published_date(published_date_raw):
    if published_date_raw is None:
        return None
 
    try:
        return parser.parse(published_date_raw)
    except parser.ParserError:
        return None
 
 
def response(resp):
 
    if brave_category in ('search', 'goggles'):
        return _parse_search(resp)
 
    datastr = extr(resp.text, "const data = ", ";\n").strip()
 
    json_data = js_variable_to_python(datastr)
    json_resp = json_data[1]['data']['body']['response']
 
    if brave_category == 'news':
        return _parse_news(json_resp['news'])
 
    if brave_category == 'images':
        return _parse_images(json_resp)
    if brave_category == 'videos':
        return _parse_videos(json_resp)
 
    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported brave category: {brave_category}")
 
 
def _parse_search(resp):
 
    result_list = []
    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
 
    answer_tag = eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//div[@class="answer"]', 0, default=None)
    if answer_tag:
        url = eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//div[@id="featured_snippet"]/a[@class="result-header"]/@href', 0, default=None)
        result_list.append({'answer': extract_text(answer_tag), 'url': url})
 
    # xpath_results = '//div[contains(@class, "snippet fdb") and @data-type="web"]'
    xpath_results = '//div[contains(@class, "snippet ")]'
 
    for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, xpath_results):
 
        url = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/a[contains(@class, "h")]/@href', 0, default=None)
        title_tag = eval_xpath_getindex(
            result, './/a[contains(@class, "h")]//div[contains(@class, "title")]', 0, default=None
        )
        if url is None or title_tag is None or not urlparse(url).netloc:  # partial url likely means it's an ad
            continue
 
        content_tag = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/div[contains(@class, "snippet-description")]', 0, default='')
        pub_date_raw = eval_xpath(result, 'substring-before(.//div[contains(@class, "snippet-description")], "-")')
        thumbnail = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/img[contains(@class, "thumb")]/@src', 0, default='')
 
        item = {
            'url': url,
            'title': extract_text(title_tag),
            'content': extract_text(content_tag),
            'publishedDate': _extract_published_date(pub_date_raw),
            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
        }
 
        video_tag = eval_xpath_getindex(
            result, './/div[contains(@class, "video-snippet") and @data-macro="video"]', 0, default=None
        )
        if video_tag is not None:
 
            # In my tests a video tag in the WEB search was most often not a
            # video, except the ones from youtube ..
 
            iframe_src = get_embeded_stream_url(url)
            if iframe_src:
                item['iframe_src'] = iframe_src
                item['template'] = 'videos.html'
                item['thumbnail'] = eval_xpath_getindex(video_tag, './/img/@src', 0, default='')
                pub_date_raw = extract_text(
                    eval_xpath(video_tag, './/div[contains(@class, "snippet-attributes")]/div/text()')
                )
                item['publishedDate'] = _extract_published_date(pub_date_raw)
            else:
                item['thumbnail'] = eval_xpath_getindex(video_tag, './/img/@src', 0, default='')
 
        result_list.append(item)
 
    return result_list
 
 
def _parse_news(json_resp):
    result_list = []
 
    for result in json_resp["results"]:
        item = {
            'url': result['url'],
            'title': result['title'],
            'content': result['description'],
            'publishedDate': _extract_published_date(result['age']),
        }
        if result['thumbnail'] is not None:
            item['thumbnail'] = result['thumbnail']['src']
        result_list.append(item)
 
    return result_list
 
 
def _parse_images(json_resp):
    result_list = []
 
    for result in json_resp["results"]:
        item = {
            'url': result['url'],
            'title': result['title'],
            'content': result['description'],
            'template': 'images.html',
            'resolution': result['properties']['format'],
            'source': result['source'],
            'img_src': result['properties']['url'],
            'thumbnail_src': result['thumbnail']['src'],
        }
        result_list.append(item)
 
    return result_list
 
 
def _parse_videos(json_resp):
    result_list = []
 
    for result in json_resp["results"]:
 
        url = result['url']
        item = {
            'url': url,
            'title': result['title'],
            'content': result['description'],
            'template': 'videos.html',
            'length': result['video']['duration'],
            'duration': result['video']['duration'],
            'publishedDate': _extract_published_date(result['age']),
        }
 
        if result['thumbnail'] is not None:
            item['thumbnail'] = result['thumbnail']['src']
 
        iframe_src = get_embeded_stream_url(url)
        if iframe_src:
            item['iframe_src'] = iframe_src
 
        result_list.append(item)
 
    return result_list
 
 
def fetch_traits(engine_traits: EngineTraits):
    """Fetch :ref:`languages <brave languages>` and :ref:`regions <brave
    regions>` from Brave."""
 
    # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel, too-many-branches
 
    import babel.languages
    from searx.locales import region_tag, language_tag
    from searx.network import get  # see https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/762
 
    engine_traits.custom["ui_lang"] = {}
 
    headers = {
        'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
    }
    lang_map = {'no': 'nb'}  # norway
 
    # languages (UI)
 
    resp = get('https://search.brave.com/settings', headers=headers)
 
    if not resp.ok:  # type: ignore
        print("ERROR: response from Brave is not OK.")
    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)  # type: ignore
 
    for option in dom.xpath('//section//option[@value="en-us"]/../option'):
 
        ui_lang = option.get('value')
        try:
            l = babel.Locale.parse(ui_lang, sep='-')
            if l.territory:
                sxng_tag = region_tag(babel.Locale.parse(ui_lang, sep='-'))
            else:
                sxng_tag = language_tag(babel.Locale.parse(ui_lang, sep='-'))
 
        except babel.UnknownLocaleError:
            print("ERROR: can't determine babel locale of Brave's (UI) language %s" % ui_lang)
            continue
 
        conflict = engine_traits.custom["ui_lang"].get(sxng_tag)
        if conflict:
            if conflict != ui_lang:
                print("CONFLICT: babel %s --> %s, %s" % (sxng_tag, conflict, ui_lang))
            continue
        engine_traits.custom["ui_lang"][sxng_tag] = ui_lang
 
    # search regions of brave
 
    resp = get('https://cdn.search.brave.com/serp/v2/_app/immutable/chunks/parameters.734c106a.js', headers=headers)
 
    if not resp.ok:  # type: ignore
        print("ERROR: response from Brave is not OK.")
 
    country_js = resp.text[resp.text.index("options:{all") + len('options:') :]  # type: ignore
    country_js = country_js[: country_js.index("},k={default")]
    country_tags = js_variable_to_python(country_js)
 
    for k, v in country_tags.items():
        if k == 'all':
            engine_traits.all_locale = 'all'
            continue
        country_tag = v['value']
 
        # add official languages of the country ..
        for lang_tag in babel.languages.get_official_languages(country_tag, de_facto=True):
            lang_tag = lang_map.get(lang_tag, lang_tag)
            sxng_tag = region_tag(babel.Locale.parse('%s_%s' % (lang_tag, country_tag.upper())))
            # print("%-20s: %s <-- %s" % (v['label'], country_tag, sxng_tag))
 
            conflict = engine_traits.regions.get(sxng_tag)
            if conflict:
                if conflict != country_tag:
                    print("CONFLICT: babel %s --> %s, %s" % (sxng_tag, conflict, country_tag))
                    continue
            engine_traits.regions[sxng_tag] = country_tag