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| -rw-r--r-- | searx/engines/duckduckgo.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py index e421b9cfd..3ce629eec 100644 --- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py +++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py @@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ def get_vqd(query): 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] + value = doc.xpath("//input[@name='vqd']/@value") + if value: + value = value[0] + else: + # some search terms do not have results and therefore no vqd value + value = '' logger.debug("new vqd value: %s", value) cache_vqd(query, value) return value @@ -236,9 +241,6 @@ def request(query, params): params['data']['s'] = offset params['data']['dc'] = offset + 1 - # request needs a vqd argument - params['data']['vqd'] = get_vqd(query) - # initial page does not have additional data in the input form if params['pageno'] > 1: |