[enh] engines: rework bing engine (#5793)

* [enh] engines: rework bing engine

Only Bing-Web has been reworked.

Some features now require JavaScript (paging and time-range results).
Cookies no longer work, parameters such as `cc`, `ui`, ... alter the results.

The engine only appears to use the locale from `Accept-Language` header properly.

The rest of Bing's child engines (Bing-Image, Bing-Video, ...) seem to benefit
from using `mkt` param in conjunction with the `Accept-Language` header
override, although Bing-Web does not (?)

* [enh] explicit mkt

* [fix] engines: bing_videos.py

https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/5793#pullrequestreview-3881883250
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Ivan Gabaldon
2026-03-18 14:55:25 +01:00
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
# pylint: disable=invalid-name
"""Bing-Videos: description see :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing`."""
import json
@@ -7,81 +6,90 @@ from urllib.parse import urlencode
from lxml import html
from searx.engines.bing import set_bing_cookies
from searx.engines.bing import fetch_traits # pylint: disable=unused-import
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://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-video-search-api',
"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',
"results": "HTML",
}
# engine dependent config
categories = ['videos', 'web']
categories = ["videos", "web"]
paging = True
safesearch = True
time_range_support = True
base_url = 'https://www.bing.com/videos/asyncv2'
"""Bing (Videos) async search URL."""
base_url = "https://www.bing.com/videos/asyncv2"
"""Bing-Video search URL"""
def request(query, params):
"""Assemble a Bing-Video request."""
engine_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], traits.all_locale) # type: ignore
engine_language = traits.get_language(params['searxng_locale'], 'en') # type: ignore
set_bing_cookies(params, engine_language, engine_region)
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
# - 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 images per page
'first': (int(params.get('pageno', 1)) - 1) * 35 + 1,
'count': 35,
"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'
# - 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"]]
if params['time_range']:
query_params['form'] = 'VRFLTR'
query_params['qft'] = ' filterui:videoage-lt%s' % time_map[params['time_range']]
params['url'] = base_url + '?' + urlencode(query_params)
params["url"] = base_url + "?" + 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[@class="dg_u"]//div[contains(@id, "mc_vtvc_video")]'):
metadata = json.loads(result.xpath('.//div[@class="vrhdata"]/@vrhm')[0])
info = ' - '.join(result.xpath('.//div[@class="mc_vtvc_meta_block"]//span/text()')).strip()
content = '{0} - {1}'.format(metadata['du'], info)
thumbnail = result.xpath('.//div[contains(@class, "mc_vtvc_th")]//img/@src')[0]
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': content,
'template': 'videos.html',
"url": metadata["murl"],
"thumbnail": thumbnail,
"title": metadata.get("vt", ""),
"content": info,
"length": metadata["du"],
"template": "videos.html",
}
)