[fix] rewrite Yahoo-News engine

Many things have been changed since last review of this engine.  This patch fix
xpath selectors, implements suggestion and is a complete review / rewrite of the
engine.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus@darmarit.de>

Makefile

@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ PYLINT_FILES=\
 	searx/engines/google_images.py \
 	searx/engines/mediathekviewweb.py \
 	searx/engines/google_scholar.py \
+	searx/engines/yahoo_news.py \
 	searx_extra/update/update_external_bangs.py
 
 test.pylint: pyenvinstall

searx/engines/yahoo_news.py

@@ -1,16 +1,35 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+"""Yahoo (News)
+
+Yahoo News is "English only" and do not offer localized nor language queries.
+
 """
- Yahoo (News)
+
-"""
+# pylint: disable=invalid-name, missing-function-docstring
 
 import re
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from lxml import html
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url, language_aliases
-from searx.engines.yahoo import _fetch_supported_languages, supported_languages_url  # NOQA # pylint: disable=unused-import
 from dateutil import parser
-from searx.utils import extract_text, extract_url, match_language
+from lxml import html
+
+from searx import logger
+from searx.utils import (
+    eval_xpath_list,
+    eval_xpath_getindex,
+    extract_text,
+)
+
+from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url
+
+# pylint: disable=unused-import
+from searx.engines.yahoo import (
+    _fetch_supported_languages,
+    supported_languages_url,
+)
+# pylint: enable=unused-import
+
+logger = logger.getChild('yahoo_news engine')
 
 # about
 about = {
@@ -22,90 +41,78 @@ about = {
     "results": 'HTML',
 }
 
-# engine dependent config
+language_support = False
-categories = ['news']
+time_range_support = False
+safesearch = False
 paging = True
+categories = ['news']
 
 # search-url
-search_url = 'https://news.search.yahoo.com/search?{query}&b={offset}&{lang}=uh3_news_web_gs_1&pz=10&xargs=0&vl=lang_{lang}'  # noqa
+search_url = (
-
+    'https://news.search.yahoo.com/search'
-# specific xpath variables
+    '?{query}&b={offset}'
-results_xpath = '//ol[contains(@class,"searchCenterMiddle")]//li'
+    )
-url_xpath = './/h3/a/@href'
+
-title_xpath = './/h3/a'
+AGO_RE = re.compile(r'([0-9]+)\s*(year|month|week|day|minute|hour)')
-content_xpath = './/div[@class="compText"]'
+AGO_TIMEDELTA = {
-publishedDate_xpath = './/span[contains(@class,"tri")]'
+  'minute': timedelta(minutes=1),
-suggestion_xpath = '//div[contains(@class,"VerALSOTRY")]//a'
+  'hour': timedelta(hours=1),
-
+  'day': timedelta(days=1),
+  'week': timedelta(days=7),
+  'month': timedelta(days=30),
+  'year': timedelta(days=365),
+}
 
-# do search-request
 def request(query, params):
     offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 10 + 1
 
-    if params['language'] == 'all':
+    params['url'] = search_url.format(
-        language = 'en'
+        offset = offset,
-    else:
+        query = urlencode({'p': query})
-        language = match_language(params['language'], supported_languages, language_aliases).split('-')[0]
+    )
-
+    logger.debug("query_url --> %s", params['url'])
-    params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
-                                      query=urlencode({'p': query}),
-                                      lang=language)
-
-    # TODO required?
-    params['cookies']['sB'] = '"v=1&vm=p&fl=1&vl=lang_{lang}&sh=1&pn=10&rw=new'\
-        .format(lang=language)
     return params
 
-
-def sanitize_url(url):
-    if ".yahoo.com/" in url:
-        return re.sub("\\;\\_ylt\\=.+$", "", url)
-    else:
-        return url
-
-
-# get response from search-request
 def response(resp):
     results = []
-
     dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
 
+
     # parse results
-    for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
+    for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//ol[contains(@class,"searchCenterMiddle")]//li'):
-        urls = result.xpath(url_xpath)
+
-        if len(urls) != 1:
+        url = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/h4/a/@href', 0, None)
+        if url is None:
             continue
-        url = sanitize_url(parse_url(extract_url(urls, search_url)))
+        url = parse_url(url)
-        title = extract_text(result.xpath(title_xpath)[0])
+        title = extract_text(result.xpath('.//h4/a'))
-        content = extract_text(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0])
+        content = extract_text(result.xpath('.//p'))
-
+        img_src = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/img/@data-src', 0, None)
-        # parse publishedDate
+
-        publishedDate = extract_text(result.xpath(publishedDate_xpath)[0])
+        item = {
-
+            'url': url,
-        # still useful ?
+            'title': title,
-        if re.match("^[0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
+            'content': content,
-            publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(minutes=int(re.match(r'\d+', publishedDate).group()))
+            'img_src' : img_src
-        elif re.match("^[0-9]+ days? ago$", publishedDate):
+        }
-            publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=int(re.match(r'\d+', publishedDate).group()))
+
-        elif re.match("^[0-9]+ hour(s|), [0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
+        pub_date = extract_text(result.xpath('.//span[contains(@class,"s-time")]'))
-            timeNumbers = re.findall(r'\d+', publishedDate)
+        ago = AGO_RE.search(pub_date)
-            publishedDate = datetime.now()\
+        if ago:
-                - timedelta(hours=int(timeNumbers[0]))\
+            number = int(ago.group(1))
-                - timedelta(minutes=int(timeNumbers[1]))
+            delta = AGO_TIMEDELTA[ago.group(2)]
+            pub_date = datetime.now() - delta * number
         else:
             try:
-                publishedDate = parser.parse(publishedDate)
+                pub_date = parser.parse(pub_date)
-            except:
+            except parser.ParserError:
-                publishedDate = datetime.now()
+                pub_date = None
 
-        if publishedDate.year == 1900:
+        if pub_date is not None:
-            publishedDate = publishedDate.replace(year=datetime.now().year)
+            item['publishedDate'] = pub_date
+        results.append(item)
 
-        # append result
+        for suggestion in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//div[contains(@class,"AlsoTry")]//td'):
-        results.append({'url': url,
+            results.append({'suggestion': extract_text(suggestion)})
-                        'title': title,
-                        'content': content,
-                        'publishedDate': publishedDate})
 
-    # return results
     return results