The ? search operator has been broken for some time and
currently only raises the question why it's still there.
## Context ##
The query "Paris !images" searches for "Paris" in the "images" category.
Once upon a time Searx supported "Paris ?images" to search for "Paris"
in the currently enabled categories and the "images" category.
The feature makes sense ... the ? syntax does not.
We will hopefully introduce a +!images syntax in the future.
Fixes#702.
from_bang is True when the user query contains a bang.
In this case the category is also set to 'none'.
from_bang only usage was in searx.webadapter.parse_specific :
if from_bang is True, then the EngineRef category is ignored and force to 'none'.
This commit also removes the searx.webadapter.parse_sepecific function.
was previously a Dict with two or three keys: name, category, from_bang
make clear that this is a engine reference (see tests/unit/test_search.py for example)
all variables using this class are renamed accordingly.
* Made first attempt at the bangs redirects plugin.
* It redirects. But in a messy way via javascript.
* First version with custom plugin
* Added a help page and a operator to see all the bangs available.
* Changed to .format because of support
* Changed to .format because of support
* Removed : in params
* Fixed path to json file and changed bang operator
* Changed bang operator back to &
* Made first attempt at the bangs redirects plugin.
* It redirects. But in a messy way via javascript.
* First version with custom plugin
* Added a help page and a operator to see all the bangs available.
* Changed to .format because of support
* Changed to .format because of support
* Removed : in params
* Fixed path to json file and changed bang operator
* Changed bang operator back to &
* Refactored getting search query. Also changed bang operator to ! and is now working.
* Removed prints
* Removed temporary bangs_redirect.js file. Updated plugin documentation
* Added unit test for the bangs plugin
* Fixed a unit test and added 2 more for bangs plugin
* Changed back to default settings.yml
* Added myself to AUTHORS.rst
* Refacored working of custom plugin.
* Refactored _get_bangs_data from list to dict to improve search speed.
* Decoupled bangs plugin from webserver with redirect_url
* Refactored bangs unit tests
* Fixed unit test bangs. Removed dubbel parsing in bangs.py
* Removed a dumb print statement
* Refactored bangs plugin to core engine.
* Removed bangs plugin.
* Refactored external bangs unit tests from plugin to core.
* Removed custom_results/bangs documentation from plugins.rst
* Added newline in settings.yml so the PR stays clean.
* Changed searx/plugins/__init__.py back to the old file
* Removed newline search.py
* Refactored get_external_bang_operator from utils to external_bang.py
* Removed unnecessary import form test_plugins.py
* Removed _parseExternalBang and _isExternalBang from query.py
* Removed get_external_bang_operator since it was not necessary
* Simplified external_bang.py
* Simplified external_bang.py
* Moved external_bangs unit tests to test_webapp.py. Fixed return in search with external_bang
* Refactored query parsing to unicode to support python2
* Refactored query parsing to unicode to support python2
* Refactored bangs plugin to core engine.
* Refactored search parameter to search_query in external_bang.py
The new url parameter "timeout_limit" set timeout limit defined in second.
Example "timeout_limit=1.5" means the timeout limit is 1.5 seconds.
In addition, the query can start with <[number] to set the timeout limit.
For number between 0 and 99, the unit is the second :
Example: "<30 searx" means the timeout limit is 3 seconds
For number above 100, the unit is the millisecond:
Example: "<850 searx" means the timeout is 850 milliseconds.
In addition, there is a new optional setting: outgoing.max_request_timeout.
If not set, the user timeout can't go above searx configuration (as before: the max timeout of selected engine for a query).
If the value is set, the user can set a timeout between 0 and max_request_timeout using
<[number] or timeout_limit query parameter.
Related to #1077
Updated version of PR #1413 from @isj-privacore
Add match_language function in utils to match any user given
language code with a list of engine's supported languages.
Also add language_aliases dict on each engine to translate
standard language codes into the custom codes used by the engine.
languages.py can change, so users may query on a language that is not
on the list anymore, even if it is still recognized by a few engines.
also made no and nb the same because they seem to return the same,
though most engines will only support one or the other.
Purposes :
- isolate the plugins calls
- distinction between parsing the web request and running the search (Search class). To be able to test code easily, to run searx code outside a web server, to filter the search query parameters with plugins more easily, etc...
Details :
- request.request_data contains request.form or request.args (initialize inside pre_request() function)
- Query class is renamed RawTextQuery
- SearchQuery class defines all search parameters
- get_search_query_from_webapp create a SearchQuery instance (basically the previous Search.__init__ code)
- Search class and SearchWithPlugins class takes a SearchQuery instance as class constructor parameter
- SearchWithPlugins class inherites from Search class, and run plugins
- A dedicated function search_with_plugins executes plugins to have a well define locals() (which is used by the plugins code).
- All plugins code is executed inside the try...except block (webapp.py, index function)
- advanced_search HTTP parameter value stays in webapp.py (it is only part of UI)
- multiple calls to result_container.get_ordered_results() doesn't compute the order multiple time (note : this method was call only once before)
- paging value is stored in the result_container class (compute in the extend method)
- test about engine.suspend_end_time is done during search method call (instead of __init__)
- check that the format parameter value is one of these : html, rss, json, rss (before the html value was assumed but some text formatting wasn't not done)
Allow to perform a search while adding an engine (or a category) without adding it "officially" to the request.
'?' is used to add an engine without modifying anything else to the request. For example, you can perform a search in the 'general' category, and if you add '?tw' the result from Twitter will be added to the originals results.
Markus Heiser
Martin Fischer
Alexandre Flament
Marc Abonce Seguin
Adam Tauber
Lukas van den Berk
Noémi Ványi
marc
Zeph
Thomas Pointhuber
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