Partial reverse engineering of the Google engines including a improved language
and region handling based on the engine.traits_v1 data.
When ever possible the implementations of the Google engines try to make use of
the async REST APIs. The get_lang_info() has been generalized to a
get_google_info() function / especially the region handling has been improved by
adding the cr parameter.
searx/data/engine_traits.json
Add data type "traits_v1" generated by the fetch_traits() functions from:
- Google (WEB),
- Google images,
- Google news,
- Google scholar and
- Google videos
and remove data from obsolete data type "supported_languages".
A traits.custom type that maps region codes to *supported_domains* is fetched
from https://www.google.com/supported_domains
searx/autocomplete.py:
Reversed engineered autocomplete from Google WEB. Supports Google's languages and
subdomains. The old API suggestqueries.google.com/complete has been replaced
by the async REST API: https://{subdomain}/complete/search?{args}
searx/engines/google.py
Reverse engineering and extensive testing ..
- fetch_traits(): Fetch languages & regions from Google properties.
- always use the async REST API (formally known as 'use_mobile_ui')
- use *supported_domains* from traits
- improved the result list by fetching './/div[@data-content-feature]'
and parsing the type of the various *content features* --> thumbnails are
added
searx/engines/google_images.py
Reverse engineering and extensive testing ..
- fetch_traits(): Fetch languages & regions from Google properties.
- use *supported_domains* from traits
- if exists, freshness_date is added to the result
- issue 1864: result list has been improved a lot (due to the new cr parameter)
searx/engines/google_news.py
Reverse engineering and extensive testing ..
- fetch_traits(): Fetch languages & regions from Google properties.
*supported_domains* is not needed but a ceid list has been added.
- different region handling compared to Google WEB
- fixed for various languages & regions (due to the new ceid parameter) /
avoid CONSENT page
- Google News do no longer support time range
- result list has been fixed: XPath of pub_date and pub_origin
searx/engines/google_videos.py
- fetch_traits(): Fetch languages & regions from Google properties.
- use *supported_domains* from traits
- add paging support
- implement a async request ('asearch': 'arc' & 'async':
'use_ac:true,_fmt:html')
- simplified code (thanks to '_fmt:html' request)
- issue 1359: fixed xpath of video length data
searx/engines/google_scholar.py
- fetch_traits(): Fetch languages & regions from Google properties.
- use *supported_domains* from traits
- request(): include patents & citations
- response(): fixed CAPTCHA detection (Scholar has its own CATCHA manager)
- hardening XPath to iterate over results
- fixed XPath of pub_type (has been change from gs_ct1 to gs_cgt2 class)
- issue 1769 fixed: new request implementation is no longer incompatible
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Implements a fetch_traits function for the Google engines.
.. note::
Does not include migration of the request methode from 'supported_languages'
to 'traits' (EngineTraits) object!
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Most engines that support languages (and regions) use the Accept-Language from
the WEB browser to build a response that fits to the language (and region).
- add new engine option: send_accept_language_header
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Same behaviour behaviour than Whoogle [1]. Only the google engine with the
"Default language" choice "(all)"" is changed by this patch.
When searching for a locate place, the result are in the expect language,
without missing results [2]:
> When a language is not specified, the language interpretation is left up to
> Google to decide how the search results should be delivered.
The query parameters are copied from Whoogle. With the ``all`` language:
- add parameter ``source=lnt``
- don't use parameter ``lr``
- don't add a ``Accept-Language`` HTTP header.
The new signature of function ``get_lang_info()`` is:
lang_info = get_lang_info(params, lang_list, custom_aliases, supported_any_language)
Argument ``supported_any_language`` is True for google.py and False for the other
google engines. With this patch the function now returns:
- query parameters: ``lang_info['params']``
- HTTP headers: ``lang_info['headers']``
- and as before this patch:
- ``lang_info['subdomain']``
- ``lang_info['country']``
- ``lang_info['language']``
[1] https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
[2] https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/releases/tag/v0.5.4
The language_support variable is set to True by default,
and set to False in only 5 engines.
Except the documentation and the /config URL, this variable is not used.
This commit remove the variable definition in the engines, and
set value according to supported_languages length: False when the length is 0,
True otherwise.
Close#2485
Avoid SearxEngineXPathException errors when parsing non valid results::
.//div[@class="yuRUbf"]//a/@href index 0 not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./searx/engines/google.py", line 274, in response
url = eval_xpath_getindex(result, href_xpath, 0)
File "./searx/searx/utils.py", line 608, in eval_xpath_getindex
raise SearxEngineXPathException(xpath_spec, 'index ' + str(index) + ' not found')
searx.exceptions.SearxEngineXPathException: .//div[@class="yuRUbf"]//a/@href index 0 not found
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
BTW: make the engines ready for search.checker:
- replace eval_xpath by eval_xpath_getindex and eval_xpath_list
- google_images: remove outer try/except block
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
This revise is based on the methods developed in the revise of the google engine
(see commit 410c2f9).
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Since 1. October 2020 google has changed the 'class' attribute of the HTML
result page.
Fix the xpath expressions and ignore <div class="g" ../> sections which do not
match to title's xpath expression.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
