searxng/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py

"""
 DuckDuckGo (Web)

 @website     https://duckduckgo.com/
 @provide-api yes (https://duckduckgo.com/api),
              but not all results from search-site

 @using-api   no
 @results     HTML (using search portal)
 @stable      no (HTML can change)
 @parse       url, title, content

 @todo        rewrite to api
"""

from urllib import urlencode
from lxml.html import fromstring
from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text

# engine dependent config
categories = ['general']
paging = True
language_support = True

# search-url
url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/html?{query}&s={offset}'

# specific xpath variables
result_xpath = '//div[@class="result results_links results_links_deep web-result "]'  # noqa
url_xpath = './/a[@class="result__a"]/@href'
title_xpath = './/a[@class="result__a"]'
content_xpath = './/a[@class="result__snippet"]'


# do search-request
def request(query, params):
    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 30

    if params['language'] == 'all':
        locale = None
    else:
        locale = params['language'].split('_')
        if len(locale) == 2:
            # country code goes first
            locale = locale[1].lower() + '-' + locale[0].lower()
        else:
            # doesn't actually do anything because ddg requires both country and language
            locale = locale[0].lower()

    if locale:
        params['url'] = url.format(
            query=urlencode({'q': query, 'kl': locale}), offset=offset)
    else:
        params['url'] = url.format(
            query=urlencode({'q': query}), offset=offset)

    return params


# get response from search-request
def response(resp):
    results = []

    doc = fromstring(resp.text)

    # parse results
    for r in doc.xpath(result_xpath):
        try:
            res_url = r.xpath(url_xpath)[-1]
        except:
            continue

        if not res_url:
            continue

        title = extract_text(r.xpath(title_xpath))
        content = extract_text(r.xpath(content_xpath))

        # append result
        results.append({'title': title,
                        'content': content,
                        'url': res_url})

    # return results
    return results