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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+# lint: pylint
+"""This module implements the :origin:`searxng_msg <babel.cfg>` extractor to
+extract messages from:
+
+- None
+
+The ``searxng.msg`` files are selected by Babel_, see Babel's configuration in
+:origin:`babel.cfg`::
+
+    searxng_msg = searx.babel_extract.extract
+    ...
+    [searxng_msg: **/searxng.msg]
+
+A ``searxng.msg`` file is a python file that is *executed* by the
+:py:obj:`extract` function.  Additional ``searxng.msg`` files can be added by:
+
+1. Adding a ``searxng.msg`` file in one of the SearXNG python packages and
+2. implement a method in :py:obj:`extract` that yields messages from this file.
+
+.. _Babel: https://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/index.html
+
+"""
+
+from os import path
+
+SEARXNG_MSG_FILE = "searxng.msg"
+_MSG_FILES = []
+
+
+def extract(
+    # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+    fileobj,
+    keywords,
+    comment_tags,
+    options,
+):
+    """Extract messages from ``searxng.msg`` files by a custom extractor_.
+
+    .. _extractor:
+       https://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/messages.html#writing-extraction-methods
+    """
+    if fileobj.name not in _MSG_FILES:
+        raise RuntimeError("don't know how to extract messages from %s" % fileobj.name)
+
+    namespace = {}
+    exec(fileobj.read(), {}, namespace)  # pylint: disable=exec-used
+
+    for name in namespace['__all__']:
+        for k, v in namespace[name].items():
+            yield 0, '_', v, ["%s['%s']" % (name, k)]