[chore] engines: remove ask.com (service was discontinued) (#6083)

Source: https://www.ask.com/

searx/engines/ask.py

@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-"""Ask.com"""
-
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-import dateutil
-from lxml import html
-from searx import utils
-
-# Metadata
-about = {
-    "website": "https://www.ask.com/",
-    "wikidata_id": 'Q847564',
-    "official_api_documentation": None,
-    "use_official_api": False,
-    "require_api_key": False,
-    "results": "HTML",
-}
-
-# Engine Configuration
-categories = ['general']
-paging = True
-max_page = 5
-"""Ask.com has at max 5 pages."""
-
-# Base URL
-base_url = "https://www.ask.com/web"
-
-
-def request(query, params):
-
-    query_params = {
-        "q": query,
-        "page": params["pageno"],
-    }
-
-    params["url"] = f"{base_url}?{urlencode(query_params)}"
-    return params
-
-
-def response(resp):
-
-    start_tag = 'window.MESON.initialState = {'
-    end_tag = '}};'
-
-    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
-    script = utils.eval_xpath_getindex(dom, '//script', 0, default=None).text
-
-    pos = script.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) - 1
-    script = script[pos:]
-    pos = script.index(end_tag) + len(end_tag) - 1
-    script = script[:pos]
-
-    json_resp = utils.js_obj_str_to_python(script)
-
-    results = []
-
-    for item in json_resp['search']['webResults']['results']:
-
-        pubdate_original = item.get('pubdate_original')
-        if pubdate_original:
-            pubdate_original = dateutil.parser.parse(pubdate_original)
-        metadata = [item.get(field) for field in ['category_l1', 'catsy'] if item.get(field)]
-
-        results.append(
-            {
-                "url": item['url'].split('&ueid')[0],
-                "title": item['title'],
-                "content": item['abstract'],
-                "publishedDate": pubdate_original,
-                # "thumbnail": item.get('image_url') or None, # these are not thumbs / to large
-                "metadata": ' | '.join(metadata),
-            }
-        )
-
-    return results

searx/settings.yml

@@ -469,11 +469,6 @@ engines:
     engine: arxiv
     shortcut: arx
 
-  - name: ask
-    engine: ask
-    shortcut: ask
-    disabled: true
-
   - name: azure
     engine: azure
     shortcut: az