diff --git a/searx/engines/baidu.py b/searx/engines/baidu.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf0eabf85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/baidu.py
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+"""Bing (Web)
+
+- https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2019#issuecomment-648227442
+"""
+
+import re
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from lxml import html
+from searx.utils import eval_xpath, extract_text, eval_xpath_list, eval_xpath_getindex
+from searx.network import raise_for_httperror, multi_requests, get, Request
+from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineCaptchaException
+
+about = {
+ "website": 'https://www.baidu.com',
+ "wikidata_id": 'Q14772',
+ "official_api_documentation": 'https://apis.baidu.com/',
+ "use_official_api": False,
+ "require_api_key": False,
+ "results": 'HTML',
+ "language": 'zn',
+}
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['general', 'web']
+paging = False
+time_range_support = False
+safesearch = False
+
+base_url = 'https://www.baidu.com/'
+search_string = 's?{query}'
+
+skip_tpls = ('img_normal', 'short_video', 'yl_music_song', 'dict3', 'recommend_list')
+
+desc_xpath_per_tpl = {
+ 'se_com_default': './/span[contains(@class, "content-right_8Zs40")]',
+ 'kaifa_pc_open_source_software': './/p[contains(@class, "c-color-text")]',
+ 'bk_polysemy': './/div/@aria-label',
+ 'se_st_single_video_zhanzhang': './/span[contains(@class, "c-span-last")]//p[2]',
+}
+
+
+def get_initial_parameters(params):
+ resp_index = get(base_url, headers=params['headers'], raise_for_httperror=True)
+ dom = html.fromstring(resp_index.text)
+ query_params = {}
+ for ielement in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//form[@id="form"]//input[@name]'):
+ name = ielement.attrib.get('name')
+ value = ielement.attrib.get('value')
+ query_params[name] = value
+ return query_params, resp_index.cookies
+
+
+def request(query, params):
+ params['headers'].update(
+ {
+ 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
+ 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
+ 'Sec-Fetch-Dest': 'document',
+ 'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'navigate',
+ 'Sec-Fetch-Site': 'same-origin',
+ 'Sec-Fetch-User': '?1',
+ 'Sec-GPC': '1',
+ 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
+ 'TE': 'trailers',
+ }
+ )
+
+ query_params, cookies = get_initial_parameters(params)
+ query_params['wd'] = query
+
+ params['url'] = base_url + search_string.format(query=urlencode(query_params))
+ params['cookies'] = cookies
+ params['raise_for_httperror'] = False
+ return params
+
+
+def response(resp):
+ results = []
+
+ if resp.url.host == 'wappass.baidu.com' or resp.url.path.startswith('/static/captcha'):
+ raise SearxEngineCaptchaException()
+ raise_for_httperror(resp)
+
+ dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+
+ # follow redirect but don't use the result page to reduce the CAPTCHA issue
+ redirect_element = eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//noscript/meta[@http-equiv="refresh"]/@content', 0, default=None)
+ if redirect_element and redirect_element.startswith('0; url='):
+ get(
+ base_url + redirect_element[8:],
+ headers=resp.search_params['headers'],
+ cookies=resp.search_params['cookies'],
+ )
+
+ for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//div[contains(@id,"content_left")]/div[contains(@class, "c-container")]'):
+ tpl = result.attrib.get('tpl')
+ if tpl in skip_tpls:
+ continue
+
+ if tpl == 'kaifa_pc_blog_weak':
+ # skip the result to kaifa.baidu.com (search engine for IT)
+ # but includes results from kaifa
+ for r2 in eval_xpath_list(result, './/div[contains(@class, "c-gap-bottom-small")]'):
+ title = extract_text(eval_xpath(r2, './/div[@class="c-row"]//a'))
+ url = extract_text(eval_xpath(r2, './/div[@class="c-row"]//a/@href'))
+ content = extract_text(eval_xpath(r2, '//span[@class="c-line-clamp2"]'))
+ results.append(
+ {
+ 'url': url,
+ 'title': title,
+ 'content': content,
+ }
+ )
+ continue
+
+ # normal results
+ title = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, './/h3/a'))
+ url = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, './/h3/a/@href'))
+
+ if not title or not url:
+ continue
+
+ content = None
+ if tpl in desc_xpath_per_tpl:
+ # try the XPath for the Baidu template
+ content = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, desc_xpath_per_tpl[tpl]))
+ if not content:
+ # no content was found: try all the XPath from the Baidu templates
+ for xp in desc_xpath_per_tpl.values():
+ content = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, xp))
+ if content:
+ break
+ results.append(
+ {
+ 'url': url,
+ 'title': title,
+ 'content': content,
+ }
+ )
+
+ # resolve the Baidu redirections
+ # note: Baidu does not support HTTP/2
+ request_list = [
+ Request.get(
+ u['url'].replace('http://www.baidu.com/link?url=', 'https://www.baidu.com/link?url='),
+ allow_redirects=False,
+ headers=resp.search_params['headers'],
+ )
+ for u in results
+ ]
+ response_list = multi_requests(request_list)
+ for i, redirect_response in enumerate(response_list):
+ if not isinstance(redirect_response, Exception):
+ results[i]['url'] = redirect_response.headers['location']
+
+ return results
+
+
+def debug_write_content_to_file(text):
+ RE_STYLE_ELEMENT = re.compile(r'')
+ RE_SCRIPT_ELEMENT = re.compile(r'')
+ RE_COMMENT_ELEMENT = re.compile(r'\<\!\-\-[^-]+\-\-\>')
+ with open('baidu.html', 'wt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+ text = RE_STYLE_ELEMENT.sub("", text)
+ text = RE_SCRIPT_ELEMENT.sub("", text)
+ text = RE_COMMENT_ELEMENT.sub("", text)
+ text = "\n".join([ll.rstrip() for ll in text.splitlines() if ll.strip()])
+ f.write(text)
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index b37134b88..9c0c63a84 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ engines:
shortcut: bi
disabled: true
+ - name: baidu
+ engine: baidu
+ shortcut: ba
+ timeout: 15
+ disabled: true
+
- name: bing images
engine: bing_images
shortcut: bii