searxng/searx/engines/ask.py
Markus Heiser 76845ea42c [mod] engine ask.com - parse JS result to JSON
Parse the result list from ask.com given in the variable named
window.MESON.initialState::

    <script nonce="..">
        window.MESON = window.MESON || {};
        window.MESON.initialState = {"siteConfig": ...
          ...}};
        window.MESON.loadedLang = "en";
    </script>

The result list is in field::

    json_resp['search']['webResults']['results']

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
2024-02-18 09:17:22 +01:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
# lint: pylint
"""Ask.com"""
from urllib.parse import urlencode
import dateutil
from lxml import html
from searx import utils
# Metadata
about = {
"website": "https://www.ask.com/",
"wikidata_id": 'Q847564',
"official_api_documentation": None,
"use_official_api": False,
"require_api_key": False,
"results": "HTML",
}
# Engine Configuration
categories = ['general']
paging = True
# Base URL
base_url = "https://www.ask.com/web"
def request(query, params):
query_params = {
"q": query,
"page": params["pageno"],
}
params["url"] = f"{base_url}?{urlencode(query_params)}"
return params
def response(resp):
start_tag = 'window.MESON.initialState = {'
end_tag = '}};'
dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
script = utils.eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//script', 0, default=None).text
pos = script.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) - 1
script = script[pos:]
pos = script.index(end_tag) + len(end_tag) - 1
script = script[:pos]
json_resp = utils.js_variable_to_python(script)
results = []
for item in json_resp['search']['webResults']['results']:
pubdate_original = item.get('pubdate_original')
if pubdate_original:
pubdate_original = dateutil.parser.parse(pubdate_original)
metadata = [item.get(field) for field in ['category_l1', 'catsy'] if item.get(field)]
results.append(
{
"url": item['url'],
"title": item['title'],
"content": item['abstract'],
"publishedDate": pubdate_original,
# "img_src": item.get('image_url') or None, # these are not thumbs / to large
"metadata": ' | '.join(metadata),
}
)
return results