Functions
	request (query, params)

	response (resp)

Variables
dict	about

list	categories = ['social media']

int	page_size = 25

str	base_url = 'https://www.reddit.com/'

str	search_url = base_url + 'search.json?{query}'

Detailed Description

Reddit

Function Documentation

◆ request()

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

Definition at line 29 of file reddit.py.

def request(query, params):
 
    query = urlencode({'q': query, 'limit': page_size})
    params['url'] = search_url.format(query=query)
 
    return params

◆ response()

searx.engines.reddit.response ( resp )

Definition at line 37 of file reddit.py.

def response(resp):
 
    img_results = []
    text_results = []
 
    search_results = json.loads(resp.text)
 
    # return empty array if there are no results
    if 'data' not in search_results:
        return []
 
    posts = search_results.get('data', {}).get('children', [])
 
    # process results
    for post in posts:
        data = post['data']
 
        # extract post information
        params = {'url': urljoin(base_url, data['permalink']), 'title': data['title']}
 
        # if thumbnail field contains a valid URL, we need to change template
        thumbnail = data['thumbnail']
        url_info = urlparse(thumbnail)
        # netloc & path
        if url_info[1] != '' and url_info[2] != '':
            params['img_src'] = data['url']
            params['thumbnail_src'] = thumbnail
            params['template'] = 'images.html'
            img_results.append(params)
        else:
            created = datetime.fromtimestamp(data['created_utc'])
            content = data['selftext']
            if len(content) > 500:
                content = content[:500] + '...'
            params['content'] = content
            params['publishedDate'] = created
            text_results.append(params)
 
    # show images first and text results second
    return img_results + text_results

Variable Documentation

◆ about

dict searx.engines.reddit.about

Initial value:

=  {
    "website": 'https://www.reddit.com/',
    "wikidata_id": 'Q1136',
    "official_api_documentation": 'https://www.reddit.com/dev/api',
    "use_official_api": True,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": 'JSON',
}

Definition at line 11 of file reddit.py.

◆ base_url

str searx.engines.reddit.base_url = 'https://www.reddit.com/'

Definition at line 25 of file reddit.py.

◆ categories

list searx.engines.reddit.categories = ['social media']

Definition at line 21 of file reddit.py.

◆ page_size

int searx.engines.reddit.page_size = 25

Definition at line 22 of file reddit.py.

◆ search_url

str searx.engines.reddit.search_url = base_url + 'search.json?{query}'

Definition at line 26 of file reddit.py.

Functions

Variables