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-rw-r--r--searx/engines/ask.py50
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/ask.py b/searx/engines/ask.py
index f9bcdf1e6..ff4413e1a 100644
--- a/searx/engines/ask.py
+++ b/searx/engines/ask.py
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
"""Ask.com"""
from urllib.parse import urlencode
-import re
+import dateutil
from lxml import html
+from searx import utils
# Metadata
about = {
@@ -37,20 +38,37 @@ def request(query, params):
def response(resp):
- text = html.fromstring(resp.text).text_content()
- urls_match = re.findall(r'"url":"(.*?)"', text)
- titles_match = re.findall(r'"title":"(.*?)"', text)[3:]
- content_match = re.findall(r'"abstract":"(.*?)"', text)
-
- results = [
- {
- "url": url,
- "title": title,
- "content": content,
- }
- for url, title, content in zip(urls_match, titles_match, content_match)
- if "&qo=relatedSearchNarrow" not in url
- # Related searches shouldn't be in the search results: www.ask.com/web&q=related
- ]
+ start_tag = 'window.MESON.initialState = {'
+ end_tag = '}};'
+
+ dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+ script = utils.eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//script', 0, default=None).text
+
+ pos = script.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) - 1
+ script = script[pos:]
+ pos = script.index(end_tag) + len(end_tag) - 1
+ script = script[:pos]
+
+ json_resp = utils.js_variable_to_python(script)
+
+ results = []
+
+ for item in json_resp['search']['webResults']['results']:
+
+ pubdate_original = item.get('pubdate_original')
+ if pubdate_original:
+ pubdate_original = dateutil.parser.parse(pubdate_original)
+ metadata = [item.get(field) for field in ['category_l1', 'catsy'] if item.get(field)]
+
+ results.append(
+ {
+ "url": item['url'],
+ "title": item['title'],
+ "content": item['abstract'],
+ "publishedDate": pubdate_original,
+ # "img_src": item.get('image_url') or None, # these are not thumbs / to large
+ "metadata": ' | '.join(metadata),
+ }
+ )
return results