In the EU there exists a "General Data Protection Regulation" [1] aka GDPR (BTW:
very user friendly!) which requires consent to tracking. To get the consent
from the user, google-news requests are redirected to confirm and get a CONSENT
Cookie from https://consent.google.de/s?continue=...
This patch adds a CONSENT Cookie to the google-news request to avoid
redirection.
The behavior of the CONTENTS cookies over all google engines seems similar but
the pattern is not yet fully clear to me, here are some random samples from my
analysis ..
Using common google search from different domains::
google.com: CONSENT=YES+cb.{{date}}-14-p0.de+FX+816
google.de: CONSENT=YES+cb.{{date}}-14-p0.de+FX+333
google.fr: CONSENT=YES+srp.gws-{{date}}-0-RC2.fr+FX+826
When searching about videos (google-videos)::
google.es: CONSENT=YES+srp.gws-{{date}}-0-RC2.es+FX+076
google.de: CONSENT=YES+srp.gws-{{date}}-0-RC2.de+FX+171
Google news has only one domain for all languages::
news.google.com: CONSENT=YES+cb.{{date}}-14-p0.de+FX+816
Using google-scholar search from different domains::
scholar.google.de: CONSENT=YES+cb.{{date}}-14-p0.de+FX+333
scholar.google.fr: does not use such a cookie / did not ask the user
scholar.google.es: does not use such a cookie / did not ask the user
Interim summary:
Pattern is unclear and I won't apply the CONSENT cookie to all google engines.
More experience is need before we generalize the CONSENT cookies over all
google engines.
Related:
- e9a6ab401 [fix] youtube - send CONSENT Cookie to not be redirected
- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/311
- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/243
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Since we added
- 1c67b6aec [enh] google engine: supports "default language"
there is a KeyError: 'hl in request,error pattern::
ERROR:searx.searx.search.processor.online:engine google news : exception : 'hl'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "searx/search/processors/online.py", line 144, in search
search_results = self._search_basic(query, params)
File "searx/search/processors/online.py", line 118, in _search_basic
self.engine.request(query, params)
File "searx/engines/google_news.py", line 97, in request
if lang_info['hl'] == 'en':
KeyError: 'hl'
Closes: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/154
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
The node.env build environment require npm, ttfautohint and fontforge installed
in the OS. These tools can be installed by::
sudo -H ./utils/searx.sh install buildhost
If one of the tools is not installed, the script node.env stops with a
appropriate message.
BTW: We ignore CentOS-7 as developer & build platform
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Before this commit, there are 3 node_modules directory:
* one in .
* two others in ./searx/statics/themes/*
This is no desirable:
* it declares the npm depdenencies in the shell script.
* dependabot can't updates theses dependencies.
* this is a not standard way to build a package (two different locations for the dependencies).
With this commit and the PR #150 there is one unique node_modules directory per theme.
This file is generated by webfont.
* It is now generated as searx/static/themes/simple/ion.less
* It is generated before the .less compilation.
* .gitignore includes this file
Add two new package depedencies: fontforge ttfautohint
See utils/searx.sh
the build of the themes updates:
* js/leaflet.js ( was leaflet/leaflet.js )
* css/leaflet.css ( was leaflet/leaflet.css )
* css/images ( was leaflet/images )
Markus Heiser
Alexandre Flament
dependabot[bot]