[enh] csv output support

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/searx/utils.py b/searx/utils.py
index b6c448566..8e3b10d39 100644
--- a/searx/utils.py
+++ b/searx/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 import htmlentitydefs
+import csv
+import codecs
+import cStringIO
 
 class HTMLTextExtractor(HTMLParser):
     def __init__(self):
@@ -24,3 +27,33 @@ def html_to_text(html):
     s = HTMLTextExtractor()
     s.feed(html)
     return s.get_text()
+
+
+class UnicodeWriter:
+    """
+    A CSV writer which will write rows to CSV file "f",
+    which is encoded in the given encoding.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, f, dialect=csv.excel, encoding="utf-8", **kwds):
+        # Redirect output to a queue
+        self.queue = cStringIO.StringIO()
+        self.writer = csv.writer(self.queue, dialect=dialect, **kwds)
+        self.stream = f
+        self.encoder = codecs.getincrementalencoder(encoding)()
+
+    def writerow(self, row):
+        self.writer.writerow([(s.encode("utf-8").strip() if type(s) == str or type(s) == unicode else str(s)) for s in row])
+        # Fetch UTF-8 output from the queue ...
+        data = self.queue.getvalue()
+        data = data.decode("utf-8")
+        # ... and reencode it into the target encoding
+        data = self.encoder.encode(data)
+        # write to the target stream
+        self.stream.write(data)
+        # empty queue
+        self.queue.truncate(0)
+
+    def writerows(self, rows):
+        for row in rows:
+            self.writerow(row)