Searx/searx/engines/duckduckgo_images.py

"""
 DuckDuckGo (Images)

 @website     https://duckduckgo.com/
 @provide-api yes (https://duckduckgo.com/api),
              but images are not supported

 @using-api   no
 @results     JSON (site requires js to get images)
 @stable      no (JSON can change)
 @parse       url, title, img_src

 @todo        avoid extra request
"""

from json import loads
from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text
from searx.engines.duckduckgo import _fetch_supported_languages, supported_languages_url, get_region_code
from searx.poolrequests import get
from searx.url_utils import urlencode

# engine dependent config
categories = ['images']
paging = True
language_support = True
safesearch = True

# search-url
images_url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/i.js?{query}&s={offset}&p={safesearch}&o=json&vqd={vqd}'
site_url = 'https://duckduckgo.com/?{query}&iar=images&iax=1&ia=images'


# run query in site to get vqd number needed for requesting images
# TODO: find a way to get this number without an extra request (is it a hash of the query?)
def get_vqd(query):
    res = get(site_url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query})))
    content = res.text
    vqd = content[content.find('vqd=\'') + 5:]
    vqd = vqd[:vqd.find('\'')]
    return vqd


# do search-request
def request(query, params):
    # to avoid running actual external requests when testing
    if 'is_test' not in params:
        vqd = get_vqd(query)
    else:
        vqd = '12345'

    offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 50

    safesearch = params['safesearch'] - 1

    region_code = get_region_code(params['language'], lang_list=supported_languages)
    if region_code:
        params['url'] = images_url.format(
            query=urlencode({'q': query, 'l': region_code}), offset=offset, safesearch=safesearch, vqd=vqd)
    else:
        params['url'] = images_url.format(
            query=urlencode({'q': query}), offset=offset, safesearch=safesearch, vqd=vqd)

    return params


# get response from search-request
def response(resp):
    results = []

    content = resp.text
    try:
        res_json = loads(content)
    except:
        return []

    # parse results
    for result in res_json['results']:
        title = result['title']
        url = result['url']
        thumbnail = result['thumbnail']
        image = result['image']

        # append result
        results.append({'template': 'images.html',
                        'title': title,
                        'content': '',
                        'thumbnail_src': thumbnail,
                        'img_src': image,
                        'url': url})

    return results