[feat] engines: add zapmeta general search engine

searx/engines/xpath.py

@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ number, but an offset.'''
 first_page_num = 1
 '''Number of the first page (usually 0 or 1).'''
 
+send_page_num_on_first_page = True
+'''Whether to include the page number in the request for the first page.
+This can help if an engine blocks request that send a page number for the first page.'''
+
 time_range_support = False
 '''Engine supports search time range.'''
 
@@ -238,10 +242,14 @@ def request(query, params):
     if safe_search_val is not None:
         safe_search = safe_search_map[safe_search_val]
 
+    pageno = ""
+    if send_page_num_on_first_page or params["pageno"] != 1:
+        pageno = (params['pageno'] - 1) * page_size + first_page_num
+
     fargs = {
         'query': urlencode({'q': query})[2:],
         'lang': lang,
-        'pageno': (params['pageno'] - 1) * page_size + first_page_num,
+        'pageno': pageno,
         'time_range': time_range,
         'safe_search': safe_search,
     }

searx/settings.yml

@@ -2608,6 +2608,23 @@ engines:
     shortcut: wttr
     timeout: 9.0
 
+  - name: zapmeta
+    engine: xpath
+    shortcut: zpm
+    search_url: https://www.zapmeta.com/search?q={query}&pg={pageno}
+    results_xpath: //article[contains(@class, "organic-results-item")]
+    url_xpath: ./h2/a/@href
+    title_xpath: ./h2
+    content_xpath: ./p
+    paging: true
+    send_page_num_on_first_page: false  # otherwise blocks requests
+    disabled: true
+    about:
+      website: https://www.zapmeta.com/
+      use_official_api: false
+      require_api_key: false
+      results: HTML
+
   - name: braveapi
     engine: braveapi
     # read https://docs.searxng.org/dev/engines/online/brave.html