From 8c46b767d096eac82d1382a3d802c956cb7f3d64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Flament <alex@al-f.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 08:53:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] google_news: avoid one HTTP redirect except for the
English results
also add
params['soft_max_redirects'] = 1
to avoid false error reporting in /stats/errors
---
searx/engines/google_news.py | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/searx/engines/google_news.py b/searx/engines/google_news.py
index f5f289bb7..e83b2ba48 100644
--- a/searx/engines/google_news.py
+++ b/searx/engines/google_news.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def request(query, params):
query_url = 'https://'+ subdomain + '/search' + "?" + urlencode({
'q': query,
- 'hl': lang_country,
+ 'hl': language,
'lr': "lang_" + language,
'ie': "utf8",
'oe': "utf8",
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ def request(query, params):
params['headers']['Accept'] = (
'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8'
)
+
+ # hl=en redirect to hl=en-US / en-CA ...
+ params['soft_max_redirects'] = 1
+
#params['google_subdomain'] = subdomain
return params