searx_ynh/sources/searx/engines/stackoverflow.py

## Stackoverflow (It)
#
# @website     https://stackoverflow.com/
# @provide-api not clear (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search)
#
# @using-api   no
# @results     HTML
# @stable      no (HTML can change)
# @parse       url, title, content

from urlparse import urljoin
from cgi import escape
from urllib import urlencode
from lxml import html

# engine dependent config
categories = ['it']
paging = True

# search-url
url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/'
search_url = url+'search?{query}&page={pageno}'

# specific xpath variables
results_xpath = '//div[contains(@class,"question-summary")]'
link_xpath = './/div[@class="result-link"]//a|.//div[@class="summary"]//h3//a'
title_xpath = './/text()'
content_xpath = './/div[@class="excerpt"]//text()'


# do search-request
def request(query, params):
    params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query}),
                                      pageno=params['pageno'])

    return params


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

    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)

    # parse results
    for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
        link = result.xpath(link_xpath)[0]
        href = urljoin(url, link.attrib.get('href'))
        title = escape(' '.join(link.xpath(title_xpath)))
        content = escape(' '.join(result.xpath(content_xpath)))

        # append result
        results.append({'url': href,
                        'title': title,
                        'content': content})

    # return results
    return results