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