from urllib import urlencode from lxml import html from urlparse import urlparse from cgi import escape base_url = 'https://startpage.com/' search_url = base_url+'do/search' def request(query, params): global search_url query = urlencode({'q': query})[2:] params['url'] = search_url params['method'] = 'POST' params['data'] = {'query': query} return params def response(resp): global base_url results = [] dom = html.fromstring(resp.content) # ads xpath //div[@id="results"]/div[@id="sponsored"]//div[@class="result"] # not ads : div[@class="result"] are the direct childs of div[@id="results"] for result in dom.xpath('//div[@id="results"]/div[@class="result"]'): link = result.xpath('.//h3/a')[0] url = link.attrib.get('href') parsed_url = urlparse(url) title = link.text_content() content = result.xpath('./p[@class="desc"]')[0].text_content() results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content}) return results