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+# Yahoo (News)
+#
+# @website     https://news.yahoo.com
+# @provide-api yes (https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/)
+#              $0.80/1000 queries
+#
+# @using-api   no (because pricing)
+# @results     HTML (using search portal)
+# @stable      no (HTML can change)
+# @parse       url, title, content, publishedDate
+
+import re
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+from lxml import html
+from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text, extract_url
+from searx.engines.yahoo import (
+    parse_url, _fetch_supported_languages, supported_languages_url, language_aliases
+)
+from dateutil import parser
+from searx.url_utils import urlencode
+from searx.utils import match_language
+
+# engine dependent config
+categories = ['news']
+paging = True
+language_support = True
+
+# search-url
+search_url = 'https://news.search.yahoo.com/search?{query}&b={offset}&{lang}=uh3_news_web_gs_1&pz=10&xargs=0&vl=lang_{lang}'  # noqa
+
+# specific xpath variables
+results_xpath = '//ol[contains(@class,"searchCenterMiddle")]//li'
+url_xpath = './/h3/a/@href'
+title_xpath = './/h3/a'
+content_xpath = './/div[@class="compText"]'
+publishedDate_xpath = './/span[contains(@class,"tri")]'
+suggestion_xpath = '//div[contains(@class,"VerALSOTRY")]//a'
+
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 10 + 1
+
+    if params['language'] == 'all':
+        language = 'en'
+    else:
+        language = match_language(params['language'], supported_languages, language_aliases).split('-')[0]
+
+    params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
+                                      query=urlencode({'p': query}),
+                                      lang=language)
+
+    # TODO required?
+    params['cookies']['sB'] = '"v=1&vm=p&fl=1&vl=lang_{lang}&sh=1&pn=10&rw=new'\
+        .format(lang=language)
+    return params
+
+
+def sanitize_url(url):
+    if ".yahoo.com/" in url:
+        return re.sub(u"\\;\\_ylt\\=.+$", "", url)
+    else:
+        return url
+
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+    results = []
+
+    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+
+    # parse results
+    for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
+        urls = result.xpath(url_xpath)
+        if len(urls) != 1:
+            continue
+        url = sanitize_url(parse_url(extract_url(urls, search_url)))
+        title = extract_text(result.xpath(title_xpath)[0])
+        content = extract_text(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0])
+
+        # parse publishedDate
+        publishedDate = extract_text(result.xpath(publishedDate_xpath)[0])
+
+        # still useful ?
+        if re.match("^[0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
+            publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(minutes=int(re.match(r'\d+', publishedDate).group()))
+        elif re.match("^[0-9]+ days? ago$", publishedDate):
+            publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=int(re.match(r'\d+', publishedDate).group()))
+        elif re.match("^[0-9]+ hour(s|), [0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
+            timeNumbers = re.findall(r'\d+', publishedDate)
+            publishedDate = datetime.now()\
+                - timedelta(hours=int(timeNumbers[0]))\
+                - timedelta(minutes=int(timeNumbers[1]))
+        else:
+            try:
+                publishedDate = parser.parse(publishedDate)
+            except:
+                publishedDate = datetime.now()
+
+        if publishedDate.year == 1900:
+            publishedDate = publishedDate.replace(year=datetime.now().year)
+
+        # append result
+        results.append({'url': url,
+                        'title': title,
+                        'content': content,
+                        'publishedDate': publishedDate})
+
+    # return results
+    return results