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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2023-09-05 20:25:13 +0200
committerMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>2023-09-05 22:24:51 +0200
commit696c35d2c33d60eb7b965fe017e08a00a939d4c4 (patch)
tree242b29a4ff3deab77e09dd423fbc7be1720c4f78 /searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
parent4fb26cd96d31fece21f488fda10f5bb00928a133 (diff)
[fix] engine - duckduckgo_images / determination of vqd value incorrect
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'searx/engines/duckduckgo.py')
-rw-r--r--searx/engines/duckduckgo.py16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
index 8349ad8e3..edd586f78 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ from searx.utils import (
from searx.network import get # see https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/762
from searx import redisdb
from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits
-from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException
if TYPE_CHECKING:
import logging
@@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ def cache_vqd(query, value):
c.set(key, value, ex=600)
-def get_vqd(query, headers):
+def get_vqd(query):
"""Returns the ``vqd`` that fits to the *query*. If there is no ``vqd`` cached
(:py:obj:`cache_vqd`) the query is sent to DDG to get a vqd value from the
response.
@@ -94,13 +93,10 @@ def get_vqd(query, headers):
logger.debug("re-use cached vqd value: %s", value)
return value
- query_url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q={query}&atb=v290-5'.format(query=urlencode({'q': query}))
- res = get(query_url, headers=headers)
- content = res.text # type: ignore
- if content.find('vqd=\"') == -1:
- raise SearxEngineAPIException('Request failed')
- value = content[content.find('vqd=\"') + 5 :]
- value = value[: value.find('\'')]
+ query_url = 'https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?{args}'.format(args=urlencode({'q': query}))
+ res = get(query_url)
+ doc = lxml.html.fromstring(res.text)
+ value = doc.xpath("//input[@name='vqd']/@value")[0]
logger.debug("new vqd value: %s", value)
cache_vqd(query, value)
return value
@@ -240,7 +236,7 @@ def request(query, params):
params['data']['dc'] = offset + 1
# request needs a vqd argument
- params['data']['vqd'] = get_vqd(query, params["headers"])
+ params['data']['vqd'] = get_vqd(query)
# initial page does not have additional data in the input form
if params['pageno'] > 1: