+ +

Source code for searx.engines.bing_news

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+"""Bing-News: description see :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing`.
+
+.. hint::
+
+   Bing News is *different* in some ways!
+
+"""
+
+# pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+
+from lxml import html
+
+from searx.utils import eval_xpath, extract_text, eval_xpath_list, eval_xpath_getindex
+from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits
+from searx.engines.bing import set_bing_cookies
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import logging
+
+    logger: logging.Logger
+
+traits: EngineTraits
+
+
+# about
+about = {
+    "website": 'https://www.bing.com/news',
+    "wikidata_id": 'Q2878637',
+    "official_api_documentation": 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-news-search-api',
+    "use_official_api": False,
+    "require_api_key": False,
+    "results": 'RSS',
+}
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['news']
+paging = True
+"""If go through the pages and there are actually no new results for another
+page, then bing returns the results from the last page again."""
+
+time_range_support = True
+time_map = {
+    'day': 'interval="4"',
+    'week': 'interval="7"',
+    'month': 'interval="9"',
+}
+"""A string '4' means *last hour*.  We use *last hour* for ``day`` here since the
+difference of *last day* and *last week* in the result list is just marginally.
+Bing does not have news range ``year`` / we use ``month`` instead."""
+
+base_url = 'https://www.bing.com/news/infinitescrollajax'
+"""Bing (News) search URL"""
+
+
+

+[docs]
+def request(query, params):
+    """Assemble a Bing-News request."""
+
+    engine_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], traits.all_locale)  # type: ignore
+    engine_language = traits.get_language(params['searxng_locale'], 'en')  # type: ignore
+    set_bing_cookies(params, engine_language, engine_region)
+
+    # build URL query
+    #
+    # example: https://www.bing.com/news/infinitescrollajax?q=london&first=1
+
+    page = int(params.get('pageno', 1)) - 1
+    query_params = {
+        'q': query,
+        'InfiniteScroll': 1,
+        # to simplify the page count lets use the default of 10 images per page
+        'first': page * 10 + 1,
+        'SFX': page,
+        'form': 'PTFTNR',
+        'setlang': engine_region.split('-')[0],
+        'cc': engine_region.split('-')[-1],
+    }
+
+    if params['time_range']:
+        query_params['qft'] = time_map.get(params['time_range'], 'interval="9"')
+
+    params['url'] = base_url + '?' + urlencode(query_params)
+
+    return params

+
+
+
+

+[docs]
+def response(resp):
+    """Get response from Bing-Video"""
+    results = []
+
+    if not resp.ok or not resp.text:
+        return results
+
+    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+
+    for newsitem in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//div[contains(@class, "newsitem")]'):
+
+        link = eval_xpath_getindex(newsitem, './/a[@class="title"]', 0, None)
+        if link is None:
+            continue
+        url = link.attrib.get('href')
+        title = extract_text(link)
+        content = extract_text(eval_xpath(newsitem, './/div[@class="snippet"]'))
+
+        metadata = []
+        source = eval_xpath_getindex(newsitem, './/div[contains(@class, "source")]', 0, None)
+        if source is not None:
+            for item in (
+                eval_xpath_getindex(source, './/span[@aria-label]/@aria-label', 0, None),
+                # eval_xpath_getindex(source, './/a', 0, None),
+                # eval_xpath_getindex(source, './div/span', 3, None),
+                link.attrib.get('data-author'),
+            ):
+                if item is not None:
+                    t = extract_text(item)
+                    if t and t.strip():
+                        metadata.append(t.strip())
+        metadata = ' | '.join(metadata)
+
+        thumbnail = None
+        imagelink = eval_xpath_getindex(newsitem, './/a[@class="imagelink"]//img', 0, None)
+        if imagelink is not None:
+            thumbnail = imagelink.attrib.get('src')
+            if not thumbnail.startswith("https://www.bing.com"):
+                thumbnail = 'https://www.bing.com/' + thumbnail
+
+        results.append(
+            {
+                'url': url,
+                'title': title,
+                'content': content,
+                'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+                'metadata': metadata,
+            }
+        )
+
+    return results

+
+
+
+

+[docs]
+def fetch_traits(engine_traits: EngineTraits):
+    """Fetch languages and regions from Bing-News."""
+    # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
+    from searx.engines.bing import fetch_traits as _f
+
+    _f(engine_traits)
+
+    # fix market codes not known by bing news:
+
+    # In bing the market code 'zh-cn' exists, but there is no 'news' category in
+    # bing for this market.  Alternatively we use the the market code from Honk
+    # Kong.  Even if this is not correct, it is better than having no hits at
+    # all, or sending false queries to bing that could raise the suspicion of a
+    # bot.
+
+    # HINT: 'en-hk' is the region code it does not indicate the language en!!
+    engine_traits.regions['zh-CN'] = 'en-hk'

+
+
+ +
+