searx.engines.presearch Namespace Reference

Functions
	init (_)
	_get_request_id (query, params)
	request (query, params)
	_strip_leading_strings (text)
	_fix_title (title, url)
	parse_search_query (json_results)
	response (resp)

Variables
dict	about
bool	paging = True
bool	safesearch = True
bool	time_range_support = True
bool	send_accept_language_header = True
list	categories = ["general", "web"]
str	search_type = "search"
str	base_url = "https://presearch.com"
dict	safesearch_map = {0: 'false', 1: 'true', 2: 'true'}

Detailed Description

Presearch supports the search types listed in :py:obj:`search_type` (general,
images, videos, news).

Configured ``presarch`` engines:

.. code:: yaml

  - name: presearch
    engine: presearch
    search_type: search
    categories: [general, web]

  - name: presearch images
    ...
    search_type: images
    categories: [images, web]

  - name: presearch videos
    ...
    search_type: videos
    categories: [general, web]

  - name: presearch news
    ...
    search_type: news
    categories: [news, web]

.. hint::

   By default Presearch's video category is intentionally placed into::

       categories: [general, web]


Search type ``video``
=====================

The results in the video category are most often links to pages that contain a
video, for instance many links from Preasearch's video category link content
from facebook (aka Meta) or Twitter (aka X).  Since these are not real links to
video streams SearXNG can't use the video template for this and if SearXNG can't
use this template, then the user doesn't want to see these hits in the videos
category.


Languages & Regions
===================

In Presearch there are languages for the UI and regions for narrowing down the
search.  If we set "auto" for the region in the WEB-UI of Presearch and cookie
``use_local_search_results=false``, then the defaults are set for both (the
language and the region) from the ``Accept-Language`` header.

Since the region is already "auto" by default, we only need to set the
``use_local_search_results`` cookie and send the ``Accept-Language`` header.  We
have to set these values in both requests we send to Presearch; in the first
request to get the request-ID from Presearch and in the final request to get the
result list (see ``send_accept_language_header``).

The time format returned by Presearch varies depending on the language set.
Multiple different formats can be supported by using ``dateutil`` parser, but
it doesn't support formats such as "N time ago", "vor N time" (German),
"Hace N time" (Spanish). Because of this, the dates are simply joined together
with the rest of other metadata.


Implementations
===============

Function Documentation

_fix_title()

searx.engines.presearch._fix_title ( title, url )

protected

Titles from Presearch shows domain + title without spacing, and HTML
This function removes these 2 issues.
Transforming "translate.google.co.in<em>Google</em> Translate" into "Google Translate"

Definition at line 164 of file presearch.py.

def _fix_title(title, url):
    """
    Titles from Presearch shows domain + title without spacing, and HTML
    This function removes these 2 issues.
    Transforming "translate.google.co.in<em>Google</em> Translate" into "Google Translate"
    """
    parsed_url = urlparse(url)
    domain = parsed_url.netloc
    title = html_to_text(title)
    # Fixes issue where domain would show up in the title
    # translate.google.co.inGoogle Translate -> Google Translate
    if (
        title.startswith(domain)
        and len(title) > len(domain)
        and not title.startswith(domain + "/")
        and not title.startswith(domain + " ")
    ):
        title = title.removeprefix(domain)
    return title
 
 

Referenced by parse_search_query().

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_get_request_id()

searx.engines.presearch._get_request_id ( query, params )

protected

Definition at line 104 of file presearch.py.

def _get_request_id(query, params):
 
    args = {
        "q": query,
        "page": params["pageno"],
    }
 
    if params["time_range"]:
        args["time"] = params["time_range"]
 
    url = f"{base_url}/{search_type}?{urlencode(args)}"
 
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': gen_useragent(),
        'Cookie': (
            f"b=1;"
            f" presearch_session=;"
            f" use_local_search_results=false;"
            f" use_safe_search={safesearch_map[params['safesearch']]}"
        ),
    }
    if params['searxng_locale'] != 'all':
        l = locales.get_locale(params['searxng_locale'])
 
        # Presearch narrows down the search by region.  In SearXNG when the user
        # does not set a region (e.g. 'en-CA' / canada) we cannot hand over a region.
 
        # We could possibly use searx.locales.get_official_locales to determine
        # in which regions this language is an official one, but then we still
        # wouldn't know which region should be given more weight / Presearch
        # performs an IP-based geolocation of the user, we don't want that in
        # SearXNG ;-)
 
        if l.territory:
            headers['Accept-Language'] = f"{l.language}-{l.territory},{l.language};" "q=0.9,*;" "q=0.5"
 
    resp_text = get(url, headers=headers).text  # type: ignore
 
    for line in resp_text.split("\n"):
        if "window.searchId = " in line:
            return line.split("= ")[1][:-1].replace('"', "")
 
    return None
 
 

Referenced by request().

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_strip_leading_strings()

searx.engines.presearch._strip_leading_strings ( text )

protected

Definition at line 157 of file presearch.py.

def _strip_leading_strings(text):
    for x in ['wikipedia', 'google']:
        if text.lower().endswith(x):
            text = text[: -len(x)]
    return text.strip()
 
 

Referenced by parse_search_query().

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init()

searx.engines.presearch.init

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_

)

Definition at line 99 of file presearch.py.

def init(_):
    if search_type not in ['search', 'images', 'videos', 'news']:
        raise ValueError(f'presearch search_type: {search_type}')
 
 

parse_search_query()

searx.engines.presearch.parse_search_query

(

json_results

)

Definition at line 185 of file presearch.py.

def parse_search_query(json_results):
    results = []
 
    for item in json_results.get('specialSections', {}).get('topStoriesCompact', {}).get('data', []):
        result = {
            'url': item['link'],
            'title': _fix_title(item['title'], item['link']),
            'thumbnail': item['image'],
            'content': '',
            'metadata': item.get('source'),
        }
        results.append(result)
 
    for item in json_results.get('standardResults', []):
        result = {
            'url': item['link'],
            'title': _fix_title(item['title'], item['link']),
            'content': html_to_text(item['description']),
        }
        results.append(result)
 
    info = json_results.get('infoSection', {}).get('data')
    if info:
        attributes = []
        for item in info.get('about', []):
 
            text = html_to_text(item)
            if ':' in text:
                # split text into key / value
                label, value = text.split(':', 1)
            else:
                # In other languages (tested with zh-TW) a colon is represented
                # by a different symbol --> then we split at the first space.
                label, value = text.split(' ', 1)
                label = label[:-1]
 
            value = _strip_leading_strings(value)
            attributes.append({'label': label, 'value': value})
        content = []
        for item in [info.get('subtitle'), info.get('description')]:
            if not item:
                continue
            item = _strip_leading_strings(html_to_text(item))
            if item:
                content.append(item)
 
        results.append(
            {
                'infobox': info['title'],
                'id': info['title'],
                'img_src': info.get('image'),
                'content': ' | '.join(content),
                'attributes': attributes,
            }
        )
    return results
 
 

References _fix_title(), and _strip_leading_strings().

Referenced by response().

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request()

searx.engines.presearch.request	(		query,
			params )

Definition at line 149 of file presearch.py.

def request(query, params):
    request_id = _get_request_id(query, params)
    params["headers"]["Accept"] = "application/json"
    params["url"] = f"{base_url}/results?id={request_id}"
 
    return params
 
 

References _get_request_id().

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response()

searx.engines.presearch.response

(

resp

)

Definition at line 243 of file presearch.py.

def response(resp):
    results = []
    json_resp = resp.json()
 
    if search_type == 'search':
        results = parse_search_query(json_resp.get('results'))
 
    elif search_type == 'images':
        for item in json_resp.get('images', []):
            results.append(
                {
                    'template': 'images.html',
                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
                    'url': item.get('link'),
                    'img_src': item.get('image'),
                    'thumbnail_src': item.get('thumbnail'),
                }
            )
 
    elif search_type == 'videos':
        # The results in the video category are most often links to pages that contain
        # a video and not to a video stream --> SearXNG can't use the video template.
 
        for item in json_resp.get('videos', []):
            duration = item.get('duration')
            if duration:
                duration = parse_duration_string(duration)
 
            results.append(
                {
                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
                    'url': item.get('link'),
                    'content': item.get('description', ''),
                    'thumbnail': item.get('image'),
                    'length': duration,
                }
            )
 
    elif search_type == 'news':
        for item in json_resp.get('news', []):
            source = item.get('source')
            # Bug on their end, time sometimes returns "</a>"
            time = html_to_text(item.get('time')).strip()
            metadata = [source]
            if time != "":
                metadata.append(time)
 
            results.append(
                {
                    'title': html_to_text(item['title']),
                    'url': item.get('link'),
                    'content': html_to_text(item.get('description', '')),
                    'metadata': ' / '.join(metadata),
                    'thumbnail': item.get('image'),
                }
            )
 
    return results

References parse_search_query().

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Variable Documentation

about

dict searx.engines.presearch.about

Initial value:

=  {
    "website": "https://presearch.io",
    "wikidiata_id": "Q7240905",
    "official_api_documentation": "https://docs.presearch.io/nodes/api",
    "use_official_api": False,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": "JSON",
}

Definition at line 78 of file presearch.py.

base_url

str searx.engines.presearch.base_url = "https://presearch.com"

Definition at line 95 of file presearch.py.

categories

list searx.engines.presearch.categories = ["general", "web"]

Definition at line 90 of file presearch.py.

paging

bool searx.engines.presearch.paging = True

Definition at line 86 of file presearch.py.

safesearch

bool searx.engines.presearch.safesearch = True

Definition at line 87 of file presearch.py.

safesearch_map

dict searx.engines.presearch.safesearch_map = {0: 'false', 1: 'true', 2: 'true'}

Definition at line 96 of file presearch.py.

search_type

str searx.engines.presearch.search_type = "search"

Definition at line 92 of file presearch.py.

send_accept_language_header

bool searx.engines.presearch.send_accept_language_header = True

Definition at line 89 of file presearch.py.

time_range_support

bool searx.engines.presearch.time_range_support = True

Definition at line 88 of file presearch.py.