from urllib import urlencode
from lxml import html
from json import loads
categories = ['videos']
locale = 'en_US'
# see http://www.dailymotion.com/doc/api/obj-video.html
search_url = 'https://api.dailymotion.com/videos?fields=title,description,duration,url,thumbnail_360_url&sort=relevance&limit=25&page=1&{query}'
def request(query, params):
global search_url
params['url'] = search_url.format(
query=urlencode({'search': query, 'localization': locale}))
return params
def response(resp):
results = []
search_res = loads(resp.text)
if not 'list' in search_res:
return results
for res in search_res['list']:
title = res['title']
url = res['url']
if res['thumbnail_360_url']:
content = '![]({1})
'.format(url, res['thumbnail_360_url'])
else:
content = ''
if res['description']:
description = text_content_from_html(res['description'])
content += description[:500]
results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content})
return results
def text_content_from_html(html_string):
desc_html = html.fragment_fromstring(html_string, create_parent=True)
return desc_html.text_content()