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authorAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-02-09 21:21:59 +0100
committerAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-02-09 21:21:59 +0100
commitb5061b5f0fd2e3058af60038a47676ad26c671e6 (patch)
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parent909424e1e5fc3f7c3a7089d8a4ddae84e56db8dd (diff)
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[fix] restrict wikipedia queries to the titles to avoid irrelevant results
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-rw-r--r--searx/engines/mediawiki.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/mediawiki.py b/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
index ff3fad2d7..26d3720d9 100644
--- a/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
+++ b/searx/engines/mediawiki.py
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ base_url = 'https://{language}.wikipedia.org/'
search_postfix = 'w/api.php?action=query'\
'&list=search'\
'&{query}'\
- '&srprop=timestamp'\
'&format=json'\
'&sroffset={offset}'\
- '&srlimit={limit}'
+ '&srlimit={limit}'\
+ '&srwhat=nearmatch' # search for a near match in the title
# do search-request
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ def response(resp):
# parse results
for result in search_results['query']['search']:
+ if result.get('snippet', '').startswith('#REDIRECT'):
+ continue
url = base_url.format(language=resp.search_params['language']) +\
'wiki/' + quote(result['title'].replace(' ', '_').encode('utf-8'))