searxng/searx/engines/twitter.py

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## Twitter (Social media)
#
# @website https://twitter.com/
# @provide-api yes (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search)
#
# @using-api no
# @results HTML (using search portal)
# @stable no (HTML can change)
# @parse url, title, content
#
# @todo publishedDate
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from urlparse import urljoin
from urllib import urlencode
from lxml import html
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from cgi import escape
from datetime import datetime
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# engine dependent config
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categories = ['social media']
language_support = True
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# search-url
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base_url = 'https://twitter.com/'
search_url = base_url+'search?'
# specific xpath variables
results_xpath = '//li[@data-item-type="tweet"]'
link_xpath = './/small[@class="time"]//a'
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title_xpath = './/span[@class="username js-action-profile-name"]//text()'
content_xpath = './/p[@class="js-tweet-text tweet-text"]//text()'
timestamp_xpath = './/span[contains(@class,"_timestamp")]'
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# do search-request
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def request(query, params):
params['url'] = search_url + urlencode({'q': query})
# set language if specified
if params['language'] != 'all':
params['cookies']['lang'] = params['language'].split('_')[0]
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return params
# get response from search-request
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def response(resp):
results = []
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dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
# parse results
for tweet in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
link = tweet.xpath(link_xpath)[0]
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url = urljoin(base_url, link.attrib.get('href'))
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title = ''.join(tweet.xpath(title_xpath))
content = escape(''.join(tweet.xpath(content_xpath)))
pubdate = tweet.xpath(timestamp_xpath)
if len(pubdate) > 0:
publishedDate = datetime.fromtimestamp(float(pubdate[0].attrib.get('data-time')), None)
# append result
results.append({'url': url,
'title': title,
'content': content,
'publishedDate': publishedDate})
else:
# append result
results.append({'url': url,
'title': title,
'content': content})
# return results
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return results