# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
# lint: pylint
"""This is the implementation of the google news engine. The google news API
ignores some parameters from the common :ref:`google API`:
- num_ : the number of search results is ignored
- save_ : is ignored / Google-News results are always *SafeSearch*
.. _num: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#numsp
.. _save: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#safesp
"""
# pylint: disable=invalid-name
import binascii
import re
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from base64 import b64decode
from lxml import html
from searx.utils import (
eval_xpath,
eval_xpath_list,
eval_xpath_getindex,
extract_text,
)
# pylint: disable=unused-import
from searx.engines.google import (
supported_languages_url,
_fetch_supported_languages,
)
# pylint: enable=unused-import
from searx.engines.google import (
get_lang_info,
detect_google_sorry,
)
# about
about = {
"website": 'https://news.google.com',
"wikidata_id": 'Q12020',
"official_api_documentation": 'https://developers.google.com/custom-search',
"use_official_api": False,
"require_api_key": False,
"results": 'HTML',
}
# compared to other google engines google-news has a different time range
# support. The time range is included in the search term.
time_range_dict = {
'day': 'when:1d',
'week': 'when:7d',
'month': 'when:1m',
'year': 'when:1y',
}
# engine dependent config
categories = ['news']
paging = False
use_locale_domain = True
time_range_support = True
# Google-News results are always *SafeSearch*. Option 'safesearch' is set to
# False here, otherwise checker will report safesearch-errors::
#
# safesearch : results are identitical for safesearch=0 and safesearch=2
safesearch = False
send_accept_language_header = True
[docs]def request(query, params):
"""Google-News search request"""
lang_info = get_lang_info(params, supported_languages, language_aliases, False)
# google news has only one domain
lang_info['subdomain'] = 'news.google.com'
ceid = "%s:%s" % (lang_info['country'], lang_info['language'])
# google news redirects en to en-US
if lang_info['params']['hl'] == 'en':
lang_info['params']['hl'] = 'en-US'
# Very special to google-news compared to other google engines, the time
# range is included in the search term.
if params['time_range']:
query += ' ' + time_range_dict[params['time_range']]
query_url = (
'https://'
+ lang_info['subdomain']
+ '/search'
+ "?"
+ urlencode({'q': query, **lang_info['params'], 'ie': "utf8", 'oe': "utf8", 'gl': lang_info['country']})
+ ('&ceid=%s' % ceid)
) # ceid includes a ':' character which must not be urlencoded
params['url'] = query_url
params['cookies']['CONSENT'] = "YES+"
params['headers'].update(lang_info['headers'])
params['headers']['Accept'] = 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'
return params
[docs]def response(resp):
"""Get response from google's search request"""
results = []
detect_google_sorry(resp)
# convert the text to dom
dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//div[@class="xrnccd"]'):
# The first <a> tag in the <article> contains the link to the
# article The href attribute of the <a> is a google internal link,
# we can't use. The real link is hidden in the jslog attribute:
#
# <a ...
# jslog="95014; 4:https://www.cnn.com/.../index.html; track:click"
# href="./articles/CAIiENu3nGS...?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen"
# ... />
jslog = eval_xpath_getindex(result, './article/a/@jslog', 0)
url = re.findall('http[^;]*', jslog)
if url:
url = url[0]
else:
# The real URL is base64 encoded in the json attribute:
# jslog="95014; 5:W251bGwsbnVsbCxudW...giXQ==; track:click"
jslog = jslog.split(";")[1].split(':')[1].strip()
try:
padding = (4 - (len(jslog) % 4)) * "="
jslog = b64decode(jslog + padding)
except binascii.Error:
# URL can't be read, skip this result
continue
# now we have : b'[null, ... null,"https://www.cnn.com/.../index.html"]'
url = re.findall('http[^;"]*', str(jslog))[0]
# the first <h3> tag in the <article> contains the title of the link
title = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, './article/h3[1]'))
# The pub_date is mostly a string like 'yesertday', not a real
# timezone date or time. Therefore we can't use publishedDate.
pub_date = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, './article/div[1]/div[1]/time'))
pub_origin = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, './article/div[1]/div[1]/a'))
content = ' / '.join([x for x in [pub_origin, pub_date] if x])
# The image URL is located in a preceding sibling <img> tag, e.g.:
# "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DjhQh7DMszk.....z=-p-h100-w100"
# These URL are long but not personalized (double checked via tor).
img_src = extract_text(result.xpath('preceding-sibling::a/figure/img/@src'))
results.append(
{
'url': url,
'title': title,
'content': content,
'img_src': img_src,
}
)
# return results
return results
