//! The `searx` module handles the scraping of results from the searx search engine instance //! by querying the upstream searx search engine instance with user provided query and with a page //! number if provided. use rand::Rng; use reqwest::header::{HeaderMap, CONTENT_TYPE, REFERER, USER_AGENT}; use scraper::{Html, Selector}; use std::{collections::HashMap, time::Duration}; use crate::search_results_handler::aggregation_models::RawSearchResult; /// This function scrapes results from the upstream engine duckduckgo and puts all the scraped /// results like title, visiting_url (href in html),engine (from which engine it was fetched from) /// and description in a RawSearchResult and then adds that to HashMap whose keys are url and /// values are RawSearchResult struct and then returns it within a Result enum. /// /// # Arguments /// /// * `query` - Takes the user provided query to query to the upstream search engine with. /// * `page` - Takes an u32 as an argument. /// * `user_agent` - Takes a random user agent string as an argument. /// /// # Errors /// /// Returns a reqwest error if the user is not connected to the internet or if their is failure to /// reach the above `upstream search engine` page and also returns error if the scraping /// selector fails to initialize" pub async fn results( query: &str, page: u32, user_agent: &str, ) -> Result, Box> { // Page number can be missing or empty string and so appropriate handling is required // so that upstream server recieves valid page number. let url: String = format!("https://searx.work/search?q={query}&pageno={page}"); // Add random delay before making the request. let mut rng = rand::thread_rng(); let delay_secs = rng.gen_range(1, 10); std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(delay_secs)); // initializing headers and adding appropriate headers. let mut header_map = HeaderMap::new(); header_map.insert(USER_AGENT, user_agent.parse()?); header_map.insert(REFERER, "https://google.com/".parse()?); header_map.insert(CONTENT_TYPE, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".parse()?); // fetch the html from upstream searx instance engine // TODO: Write better error handling code to handle no results case. let results: String = reqwest::Client::new() .get(url) .headers(header_map) // add spoofed headers to emulate human behaviours. .send() .await? .text() .await?; let document: Html = Html::parse_document(&results); let results: Selector = Selector::parse(".result")?; let result_title: Selector = Selector::parse("h3>a")?; let result_url: Selector = Selector::parse("h3>a")?; let result_desc: Selector = Selector::parse(".content")?; // scrape all the results from the html Ok(document .select(&results) .map(|result| { RawSearchResult::new( result .select(&result_title) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() .to_string(), result .select(&result_url) .next() .unwrap() .value() .attr("href") .unwrap() .to_string(), result .select(&result_desc) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() .to_string(), vec!["searx".to_string()], ) }) .map(|search_result| (search_result.visiting_url.clone(), search_result)) .collect()) }