From 3df53d6e503b97533dda33691462d949aa480dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hackurei <138650713+Hackurei@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 15:18:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [feat] engine: implementation of ask.com

---
 searx/engines/ask.py | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 searx/settings.yml   |  5 ++++
 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 searx/engines/ask.py

diff --git a/searx/engines/ask.py b/searx/engines/ask.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f9bcdf1e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/ask.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+# lint: pylint
+"""Ask.com"""
+
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+import re
+from lxml import html
+
+# 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):
+
+    text = html.fromstring(resp.text).text_content()
+    urls_match = re.findall(r'"url":"(.*?)"', text)
+    titles_match = re.findall(r'"title":"(.*?)"', text)[3:]
+    content_match = re.findall(r'"abstract":"(.*?)"', text)
+
+    results = [
+        {
+            "url": url,
+            "title": title,
+            "content": content,
+        }
+        for url, title, content in zip(urls_match, titles_match, content_match)
+        if "&qo=relatedSearchNarrow" not in url
+        # Related searches shouldn't be in the search results: www.ask.com/web&q=related
+    ]
+
+    return results
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 8ce12880f..efdab6fe5 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ engines:
     shortcut: arx
     timeout: 4.0
 
+  - name: ask
+    engine: ask
+    shortcut: ask
+    disabled: true
+
   # tmp suspended:  dh key too small
   # - name: base
   #   engine: base