Merge pull request #165 from return42/patch-google

improve & document google engine

docs/src/searx.engines.google.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+.. _google engines:
+
+==============
+Google Engines
+==============
+
+.. contents:: Contents
+   :depth: 2
+   :local:
+   :backlinks: entry
+
+
+.. _google API:
+
+google API
+==========
+
+.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
+   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
+
+For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
+Definitions`_.  Not all parameters can be appied and some engines are *special*
+(e.g. :ref:`google news engine`).
+
+.. _google web engine:
+
+Google WEB
+==========
+
+.. automodule:: searx.engines.google
+  :members:
+
+.. _google images engine:
+
+Google Images
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: searx.engines.google_images
+  :members:
+
+.. _google videos engine:
+
+Google Videos
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: searx.engines.google_videos
+  :members:
+
+.. _google news engine:
+
+Google News
+===========
+
+.. automodule:: searx.engines.google_news
+  :members:

searx/engines/google.py

@@ -1,12 +1,28 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 # lint: pylint
-"""Google (Web)
+"""This is the implementation of the google WEB engine.  Some of this
+implementations are shared by other engines:
 
-For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
-Definitions`_.
+- :ref:`google images engine`
+- :ref:`google news engine`
+- :ref:`google videos engine`
+
+The google WEB engine itself has a special setup option:
+
+.. code:: yaml
+
+  - name: google
+    ...
+    use_mobile_ui: true
+
+``use_mobile_ui``: (default: ``true``)
+  Enables to use *mobile endpoint* to bypass the google blocking (see
+  :issue:`159`).  On the mobile UI of Google Search, the button :guilabel:`More
+  results` is not affected by Google rate limiting and we can still do requests
+  while actively blocked by the original Google search.  By activate
+  ``use_mobile_ui`` this behavior is simulated by adding the parameter
+  ``async=use_ac:true,_fmt:pc`` to the :py:func:`request`.
 
-.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
-   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
 """
 
 # pylint: disable=invalid-name, missing-function-docstring
@@ -137,8 +153,9 @@ spelling_suggestion_xpath = '//div[@class="med"]/p/a'
 def get_lang_info(params, lang_list, custom_aliases, supported_any_language):
     """Composing various language properties for the google engines.
 
-    This function is called by the various google engines (google itself,
-    google-images, -news, -scholar, -videos).
+    This function is called by the various google engines (:ref:`google web
+    engine`, :ref:`google images engine`, :ref:`google news engine` and
+    :ref:`google videos engine`).
 
     :param dict param: request parameters of the engine
 
@@ -146,7 +163,7 @@ def get_lang_info(params, lang_list, custom_aliases, supported_any_language):
         :py:obj:`ENGINES_LANGUAGES[engine-name] <searx.data.ENGINES_LANGUAGES>`
 
     :param dict lang_list: custom aliases for non standard language codes
-        (used when calling :py:func:`searx.utils.match_language)
+        (used when calling :py:func:`searx.utils.match_language`)
 
     :param bool supported_any_language: When a language is not specified, the
         language interpretation is left up to Google to decide how the search
@@ -159,7 +176,7 @@ def get_lang_info(params, lang_list, custom_aliases, supported_any_language):
         Py-Dictionary with the key/value pairs:
 
         language:
-            Return value from :py:func:`searx.utils.match_language
+            Return value from :py:func:`searx.utils.match_language`
 
         country:
             The country code (e.g. US, AT, CA, FR, DE ..)
@@ -270,8 +287,7 @@ def request(query, params):
     additional_parameters = {}
     if use_mobile_ui:
         additional_parameters = {
-            'asearch': "arc",
-            'async': 'arc_id:srp_510,ffilt:all,ve_name:MoreResultsContainer,next_id:srp_5,use_ac:true,_id:arc-srp_510,_pms:qs,_fmt:pc'  # pylint: disable=line-too-long
+            'async': 'use_ac:true,_fmt:pc',
         }
 
     # https://www.google.de/search?q=corona&hl=de&lr=lang_de&start=0&tbs=qdr%3Ad&safe=medium
@@ -312,9 +328,10 @@ def response(resp):
     dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
 
     # results --> answer
-    answer = eval_xpath(dom, '//div[contains(@class, "LGOjhe")]//text()')
-    if answer:
-        results.append({'answer': ' '.join(answer)})
+    answer_list = eval_xpath(dom, '//div[contains(@class, "LGOjhe")]')
+    if answer_list:
+        answer_list = [_.xpath("normalize-space()") for _ in answer_list]
+        results.append({'answer': ' '.join(answer_list)})
     else:
         logger.debug("did not find 'answer'")
 

searx/engines/google_images.py

@@ -1,19 +1,14 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 # lint: pylint
-"""Google (Images)
+"""This is the implementation of the google images engine.
 
-For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
-Definitions`_.
-
-.. _admonition:: Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
+.. admonition:: Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
 
    This engine needs to allow images from the `data URLs`_ (prefixed with the
-   ``data:` scheme).::
+   ``data:`` scheme)::
 
-     Header set Content-Security-Policy "img-src 'self' data: ;"
+       Header set Content-Security-Policy "img-src 'self' data: ;"
 
-.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
-   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
 .. _data URLs:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs
 """

searx/engines/google_news.py

@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 # lint: pylint
-"""Google (News)
-
-For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
-Definitions`_.  Not all parameters can be appied:
+"""This is the implementation of the google news engine.  The google news API
+ignores some parameters from the common :ref:`google API`:
 
 - num_ : the number of search results is ignored
 - save_ : is ignored / Google-News results are always *SafeSearch*
 
-.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
-   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
-
 .. _num: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#numsp
 .. _save: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#safesp
 

searx/engines/google_videos.py

@@ -1,19 +1,14 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 # lint: pylint
-"""Google (Video)
+"""This is the implementation of the google videos engine.
 
-For detailed description of the *REST-full* API see: `Query Parameter
-Definitions`_.  Not all parameters can be appied.
-
-.. _admonition:: Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
+.. admonition:: Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
 
    This engine needs to allow images from the `data URLs`_ (prefixed with the
-   ``data:` scheme).::
+   ``data:`` scheme)::
 
      Header set Content-Security-Policy "img-src 'self' data: ;"
 
-.. _Query Parameter Definitions:
-   https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#WebSearch_Query_Parameter_Definitions
 .. _data URLs:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs
 

searx/settings.yml

@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ engines:
   - name: google
     engine: google
     shortcut: go
+    # see https://searxng.github.io/searxng/src/searx.engines.google.html#module-searx.engines.google
     use_mobile_ui: true
     # additional_tests:
     #   android: *test_android