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# Source code for searx.engines.bing_videos

    # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
    """Bing-Videos: description see :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing`."""

    import json
    from urllib.parse import urlencode

    from lxml import html

    from searx.engines.bing import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import
        fetch_traits,
        get_locale_params,
        override_accept_language,
    )
    from searx.engines.bing_images import time_map
    from searx.utils import eval_xpath, eval_xpath_getindex

    about = {
        "website": "https://www.bing.com/videos",
        "wikidata_id": "Q4914152",
        "official_api_documentation": "https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/bing-docs",
        "use_official_api": False,
        "require_api_key": False,
        "results": "HTML",
    }

    # engine dependent config
    categories = ["videos", "web"]
    paging = True
    safesearch = True
    time_range_support = True

    base_url = "https://www.bing.com"
    """Bing-Video search URL"""

    def request(query, params):
        """Assemble a Bing-Video request."""

        engine_region = traits.get_region(params["searxng_locale"], traits.all_locale)

        override_accept_language(params, engine_region)

        # build URL query
        # - example: https://www.bing.com/videos/asyncv2?q=foo&async=content&first=1&count=35
        query_params = {
            "q": query,
            "async": "content",
            # to simplify the page count lets use the default of 35 videos per page
            "first": (int(params.get("pageno", 1)) - 1) * 35 + 1,
            "count": 35,
        }

        locale_params = get_locale_params(engine_region)
        if locale_params:
            query_params.update(locale_params)

        # time range
        # - example: one week (10080 minutes) '&qft= filterui:videoage-lt10080'  '&form=VRFLTR'
        if params["time_range"]:
            query_params["form"] = "VRFLTR"
            query_params["qft"] = " filterui:videoage-lt%s" % time_map[params["time_range"]]

        params["url"] = base_url + "/videos/asyncv2?" + urlencode(query_params)

        return params

    def response(resp):
        """Get response from Bing-Video"""

        results = []

        dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)

        for result in dom.xpath('//div[contains(@id, "mc_vtvc_video")]'):
            metadata = json.loads(eval_xpath_getindex(result, './/div[@class="vrhdata"]/@vrhm', index=0))
            info = " - ".join(eval_xpath(result, './/div[@class="mc_vtvc_meta_block"]//span/text()')).strip()
            thumbnail = eval_xpath_getindex(
                result,
                './/img[starts-with(@class, "rms")]/@data-src-hq',
                index=0,
                default=None,
            )

            results.append(
                {
                    "url": metadata["murl"],
                    "thumbnail": thumbnail,
                    "title": metadata.get("vt", ""),
                    "content": info,
                    "length": metadata["du"],
                    "template": "videos.html",
                }
            )

        return results