# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later """ DuckDuckGo Lite ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ """ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING import re from urllib.parse import urlencode import json import babel import lxml.html from searx import ( locales, redislib, external_bang, ) from searx.utils import ( eval_xpath, eval_xpath_getindex, extract_text, ) from searx.network import get # see https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/762 from searx import redisdb from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits from searx.utils import extr from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineCaptchaException if TYPE_CHECKING: import logging logger: logging.Logger traits: EngineTraits about = { "website": 'https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/', "wikidata_id": 'Q12805', "use_official_api": False, "require_api_key": False, "results": 'HTML', } send_accept_language_header = True """DuckDuckGo-Lite tries to guess user's prefered language from the HTTP ``Accept-Language``. Optional the user can select a region filter (but not a language). """ # engine dependent config categories = ['general', 'web'] paging = True time_range_support = True safesearch = True # user can't select but the results are filtered url = 'https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/' # url_ping = 'https://duckduckgo.com/t/sl_l' time_range_dict = {'day': 'd', 'week': 'w', 'month': 'm', 'year': 'y'} form_data = {'v': 'l', 'api': 'd.js', 'o': 'json'} def cache_vqd(query, value): """Caches a ``vqd`` value from a query.""" c = redisdb.client() if c: logger.debug("cache vqd value: %s", value) key = 'SearXNG_ddg_web_vqd' + redislib.secret_hash(query) c.set(key, value, ex=600) def get_vqd(query): """Returns the ``vqd`` that fits to the *query*. If there is no ``vqd`` cached (:py:obj:`cache_vqd`) the query is sent to DDG to get a vqd value from the response. .. hint:: If an empty string is returned there are no results for the ``query`` and therefore no ``vqd`` value. DDG's bot detection is sensitive to the ``vqd`` value. For some search terms (such as extremely long search terms that are often sent by bots), no ``vqd`` value can be determined. If SearXNG cannot determine a ``vqd`` value, then no request should go out to DDG: A request with a wrong ``vqd`` value leads to DDG temporarily putting SearXNG's IP on a block list. Requests from IPs in this block list run into timeouts. Not sure, but it seems the block list is a sliding window: to get my IP rid from the bot list I had to cool down my IP for 1h (send no requests from that IP to DDG). TL;DR; the ``vqd`` value is needed to pass DDG's bot protection and is used by all request to DDG: - DuckDuckGo Lite: ``https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite`` (POST form data) - DuckDuckGo Web: ``https://links.duckduckgo.com/d.js?q=...&vqd=...`` - DuckDuckGo Images: ``https://duckduckgo.com/i.js??q=...&vqd=...`` - DuckDuckGo Videos: ``https://duckduckgo.com/v.js??q=...&vqd=...`` - DuckDuckGo News: ``https://duckduckgo.com/news.js??q=...&vqd=...`` """ value = None c = redisdb.client() if c: key = 'SearXNG_ddg_web_vqd' + redislib.secret_hash(query) value = c.get(key) if value or value == b'': value = value.decode('utf-8') logger.debug("re-use cached vqd value: %s", value) return value query_url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/?' + urlencode({'q': query}) res = get(query_url) doc = lxml.html.fromstring(res.text) for script in doc.xpath("//script[@type='text/javascript']"): script = script.text if 'vqd="' in script: value = extr(script, 'vqd="', '"') break logger.debug("new vqd value: '%s'", value) if value is not None: cache_vqd(query, value) return value def get_ddg_lang(eng_traits: EngineTraits, sxng_locale, default='en_US'): """Get DuckDuckGo's language identifier from SearXNG's locale. DuckDuckGo defines its languages by region codes (see :py:obj:`fetch_traits`). To get region and language of a DDG service use: .. code: python eng_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], traits.all_locale) eng_lang = get_ddg_lang(traits, params['searxng_locale']) It might confuse, but the ``l`` value of the cookie is what SearXNG calls the *region*: .. code:: python # !ddi paris :es-AR --> {'ad': 'es_AR', 'ah': 'ar-es', 'l': 'ar-es'} params['cookies']['ad'] = eng_lang params['cookies']['ah'] = eng_region params['cookies']['l'] = eng_region .. hint:: `DDG-lite `__ does not offer a language selection to the user, only a region can be selected by the user (``eng_region`` from the example above). DDG-lite stores the selected region in a cookie:: params['cookies']['kl'] = eng_region # 'ar-es' """ return eng_traits.custom['lang_region'].get( # type: ignore sxng_locale, eng_traits.get_language(sxng_locale, default) ) ddg_reg_map = { 'tw-tzh': 'zh_TW', 'hk-tzh': 'zh_HK', 'ct-ca': 'skip', # ct-ca and es-ca both map to ca_ES 'es-ca': 'ca_ES', 'id-en': 'id_ID', 'no-no': 'nb_NO', 'jp-jp': 'ja_JP', 'kr-kr': 'ko_KR', 'xa-ar': 'ar_SA', 'sl-sl': 'sl_SI', 'th-en': 'th_TH', 'vn-en': 'vi_VN', } ddg_lang_map = { # use ar --> ar_EG (Egypt's arabic) "ar_DZ": 'lang_region', "ar_JO": 'lang_region', "ar_SA": 'lang_region', # use bn --> bn_BD 'bn_IN': 'lang_region', # use de --> de_DE 'de_CH': 'lang_region', # use en --> en_US, 'en_AU': 'lang_region', 'en_CA': 'lang_region', 'en_GB': 'lang_region', # Esperanto 'eo_XX': 'eo', # use es --> es_ES, 'es_AR': 'lang_region', 'es_CL': 'lang_region', 'es_CO': 'lang_region', 'es_CR': 'lang_region', 'es_EC': 'lang_region', 'es_MX': 'lang_region', 'es_PE': 'lang_region', 'es_UY': 'lang_region', 'es_VE': 'lang_region', # use fr --> rf_FR 'fr_CA': 'lang_region', 'fr_CH': 'lang_region', 'fr_BE': 'lang_region', # use nl --> nl_NL 'nl_BE': 'lang_region', # use pt --> pt_PT 'pt_BR': 'lang_region', # skip these languages 'od_IN': 'skip', 'io_XX': 'skip', 'tokipona_XX': 'skip', } def quote_ddg_bangs(query): # quote ddg bangs query_parts = [] # for val in re.split(r'(\s+)', query): for val in re.split(r'(\s+)', query): if not val.strip(): continue if val.startswith('!') and external_bang.get_node(external_bang.EXTERNAL_BANGS, val[1:]): val = f"'{val}'" query_parts.append(val) return ' '.join(query_parts) def request(query, params): query = quote_ddg_bangs(query) # request needs a vqd argument vqd = get_vqd(query) eng_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], traits.all_locale) # eng_lang = get_ddg_lang(traits, params['searxng_locale']) params['url'] = url params['method'] = 'POST' params['data']['q'] = query # The API is not documented, so we do some reverse engineering and emulate # what https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/ does when you press "next Page" # link again and again .. params['headers']['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' params['data']['vqd'] = vqd # initial page does not have an offset if params['pageno'] == 2: # second page does have an offset of 20 offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 20 params['data']['s'] = offset params['data']['dc'] = offset + 1 elif params['pageno'] > 2: # third and following pages do have an offset of 20 + n*50 offset = 20 + (params['pageno'] - 2) * 50 params['data']['s'] = offset params['data']['dc'] = offset + 1 # initial page does not have additional data in the input form if params['pageno'] > 1: params['data']['o'] = form_data.get('o', 'json') params['data']['api'] = form_data.get('api', 'd.js') params['data']['nextParams'] = form_data.get('nextParams', '') params['data']['v'] = form_data.get('v', 'l') params['headers']['Referer'] = 'https://lite.duckduckgo.com/' params['data']['kl'] = eng_region params['cookies']['kl'] = eng_region params['data']['df'] = '' if params['time_range'] in time_range_dict: params['data']['df'] = time_range_dict[params['time_range']] params['cookies']['df'] = time_range_dict[params['time_range']] logger.debug("param data: %s", params['data']) logger.debug("param cookies: %s", params['cookies']) return params def detect_ddg_captcha(dom): """In case of CAPTCHA ddg open its own *not a Robot* dialog and is not redirected to CAPTCHA page. """ if eval_xpath(dom, "//form[@id='challenge-form']"): # set suspend time to zero is OK --> ddg does not block the IP raise SearxEngineCaptchaException(suspended_time=0) def response(resp): if resp.status_code == 303: return [] results = [] doc = lxml.html.fromstring(resp.text) detect_ddg_captcha(doc) result_table = eval_xpath(doc, '//html/body/form/div[@class="filters"]/table') if len(result_table) == 2: # some locales (at least China) does not have a "next page" button and # the layout of the HTML tables is different. result_table = result_table[1] elif not len(result_table) >= 3: # no more results return [] else: result_table = result_table[2] # update form data from response form = eval_xpath(doc, '//html/body/form/div[@class="filters"]/table//input/..') if len(form): form = form[0] form_data['v'] = eval_xpath(form, '//input[@name="v"]/@value')[0] form_data['api'] = eval_xpath(form, '//input[@name="api"]/@value')[0] form_data['o'] = eval_xpath(form, '//input[@name="o"]/@value')[0] logger.debug('form_data: %s', form_data) tr_rows = eval_xpath(result_table, './/tr') # In the last is the form of the 'previous/next page' links tr_rows = tr_rows[:-1] len_tr_rows = len(tr_rows) offset = 0 zero_click_info_xpath = '//html/body/form/div/table[2]/tr[2]/td/text()' zero_click = extract_text(eval_xpath(doc, zero_click_info_xpath)).strip() if zero_click and "Your IP address is" not in zero_click and "Your user agent:" not in zero_click: current_query = resp.search_params["data"].get("q") results.append( { 'answer': zero_click, 'url': "https://duckduckgo.com/?" + urlencode({"q": current_query}), } ) while len_tr_rows >= offset + 4: # assemble table rows we need to scrap tr_title = tr_rows[offset] tr_content = tr_rows[offset + 1] offset += 4 # ignore sponsored Adds if tr_content.get('class') == 'result-sponsored': continue a_tag = eval_xpath_getindex(tr_title, './/td//a[@class="result-link"]', 0, None) if a_tag is None: continue td_content = eval_xpath_getindex(tr_content, './/td[@class="result-snippet"]', 0, None) if td_content is None: continue results.append( { 'title': a_tag.text_content(), 'content': extract_text(td_content), 'url': a_tag.get('href'), } ) return results def fetch_traits(engine_traits: EngineTraits): """Fetch languages & regions from DuckDuckGo. SearXNG's ``all`` locale maps DuckDuckGo's "Alle regions" (``wt-wt``). DuckDuckGo's language "Browsers prefered language" (``wt_WT``) makes no sense in a SearXNG request since SearXNG's ``all`` will not add a ``Accept-Language`` HTTP header. The value in ``engine_traits.all_locale`` is ``wt-wt`` (the region). Beside regions DuckDuckGo also defines its languages by region codes. By example these are the english languages in DuckDuckGo: - en_US - en_AU - en_CA - en_GB The function :py:obj:`get_ddg_lang` evaluates DuckDuckGo's language from SearXNG's locale. """ # pylint: disable=too-many-branches, too-many-statements, disable=import-outside-toplevel from searx.utils import js_variable_to_python # fetch regions engine_traits.all_locale = 'wt-wt' # updated from u661.js to u.7669f071a13a7daa57cb / should be updated automatically? resp = get('https://duckduckgo.com/dist/util/u.7669f071a13a7daa57cb.js') if not resp.ok: # type: ignore print("ERROR: response from DuckDuckGo is not OK.") js_code = extr(resp.text, 'regions:', ',snippetLengths') regions = json.loads(js_code) for eng_tag, name in regions.items(): if eng_tag == 'wt-wt': engine_traits.all_locale = 'wt-wt' continue region = ddg_reg_map.get(eng_tag) if region == 'skip': continue if not region: eng_territory, eng_lang = eng_tag.split('-') region = eng_lang + '_' + eng_territory.upper() try: sxng_tag = locales.region_tag(babel.Locale.parse(region)) except babel.UnknownLocaleError: print("ERROR: %s (%s) -> %s is unknown by babel" % (name, eng_tag, region)) continue conflict = engine_traits.regions.get(sxng_tag) if conflict: if conflict != eng_tag: print("CONFLICT: babel %s --> %s, %s" % (sxng_tag, conflict, eng_tag)) continue engine_traits.regions[sxng_tag] = eng_tag # fetch languages engine_traits.custom['lang_region'] = {} js_code = extr(resp.text, 'languages:', ',regions') languages = js_variable_to_python(js_code) for eng_lang, name in languages.items(): if eng_lang == 'wt_WT': continue babel_tag = ddg_lang_map.get(eng_lang, eng_lang) if babel_tag == 'skip': continue try: if babel_tag == 'lang_region': sxng_tag = locales.region_tag(babel.Locale.parse(eng_lang)) engine_traits.custom['lang_region'][sxng_tag] = eng_lang continue sxng_tag = locales.language_tag(babel.Locale.parse(babel_tag)) except babel.UnknownLocaleError: print("ERROR: language %s (%s) is unknown by babel" % (name, eng_lang)) continue conflict = engine_traits.languages.get(sxng_tag) if conflict: if conflict != eng_lang: print("CONFLICT: babel %s --> %s, %s" % (sxng_tag, conflict, eng_lang)) continue engine_traits.languages[sxng_tag] = eng_lang