[refactor] digg - improve results and clean up source code

- strip html tags and superfluous quotation marks from content
- remove not needed cookie from request
- remove superfluous imports

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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Markus Heiser 2020-12-02 21:54:27 +01:00
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"""
Digg (News, Social media)
@website https://digg.com/
@website https://digg.com
@provide-api no
@using-api no
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"""
# pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
import random
import string
from json import loads
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from datetime import datetime
from lxml import html
# engine dependent config
categories = ['news', 'social media']
paging = True
base_url = 'https://digg.com'
# search-url
base_url = 'https://digg.com/'
search_url = base_url + 'api/search/?{query}&from={position}&size=20&format=html'
search_url = base_url + (
'/api/search/'
'?{query}'
'&from={position}'
'&size=20'
'&format=html'
)
# specific xpath variables
results_xpath = '//article'
link_xpath = './/small[@class="time"]//a'
title_xpath = './/h2//a//text()'
content_xpath = './/p//text()'
pubdate_xpath = './/time'
digg_cookie_chars = string.ascii_uppercase + string.ascii_lowercase +\
string.digits + "+_"
# do search-request
def request(query, params):
offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 20
params['url'] = search_url.format(position=offset,
query=urlencode({'q': query}))
params['cookies']['frontend.auid'] = ''.join(random.choice(
digg_cookie_chars) for _ in range(22))
params['url'] = search_url.format(
query = urlencode({'q': query}),
position = offset,
)
return params
# get response from search-request
def response(resp):
results = []
search_result = loads(resp.text)
# parse results
for result in search_result['mapped']:
for result in loads(resp.text)['mapped']:
# strip html tags and superfluous quotation marks from content
content = html.document_fromstring(
result['excerpt']
).text_content()
# 'created': {'ISO': '2020-10-16T14:09:55Z', ...}
published = datetime.strptime(result['created']['ISO'], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
# append result
results.append({'url': result['url'],
'title': result['title'],
'content': result['excerpt'],
'template': 'videos.html',
'publishedDate': published,
'thumbnail': result['images']['thumbImage']})
published = datetime.strptime(
result['created']['ISO'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
)
results.append({
'url': result['url'],
'title': result['title'],
'content' : content,
'template': 'videos.html',
'publishedDate': published,
'thumbnail': result['images']['thumbImage'],
})
# return results
return results