from urllib import quote from lxml import html from urlparse import urljoin from cgi import escape base_url = 'http://startpage.com/' search_url = base_url+'do/search' def request(query, params): global search_url query = quote(query.replace(' ', '+'), safe='+') params['url'] = search_url params['method'] = 'POST' params['data'] = {'query': query} return params def response(resp): global base_url results = [] dom = html.fromstring(resp.text) for result in dom.xpath('//div[@class="result"]'): link = result.xpath('.//h3/a')[0] url = urljoin(base_url, link.attrib.get('href')) title = ' '.join(link.xpath('.//text()')) content = escape(' '.join(result.xpath('.//p[@class="desc"]//text()'))) results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content}) return results