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Markus Heiser f26e450778 [fix] engine: google-news - Google pushed a frontend update (#5984)
Around March 9 - 10, 2026, Google pushed a frontend update to Google News that
completely changed the HTML structure of search results.

This is a complete overhaul of the Google News engine.

- The real URL is encoded in the "jslog" attribute.
  @SeriousConcept1134: the attribute is a base64 encoded JSON
- CEID list is updated
- The typification was pushed forward

Related:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5852#issuecomment-4254438184
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5852#issuecomment-4265598833

Closes: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5852
Suggested-by: SeriousConcept1134

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
2026-05-17 15:27:00 +02:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
"""This is the implementation of the Google News engine.
Google News has a different region handling compared to Google WEB.
- the ``ceid`` argument has to be set (:py:obj:`ceid_list`)
- the hl_ argument has to be set correctly (and different to Google WEB)
- the gl_ argument is mandatory
If one of this argument is not set correctly, the request is redirected to
CONSENT dialog::
https://consent.google.com/m?continue=
The google news API ignores some parameters from the common :ref:`google API`:
- num_ : the number of search results is ignored / there is no paging all
results for a query term are in the first response.
- save_ : is ignored / Google-News results are always *SafeSearch*
.. _hl: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#hlsp
.. _gl: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#glsp
.. _num: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#numsp
.. _save: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#safesp
"""
import typing as t
import json
import base64
from urllib.parse import urlencode
from lxml import html
import babel
from searx import locales
from searx.utils import (
eval_xpath,
eval_xpath_list,
eval_xpath_getindex,
extract_text,
)
from searx.engines.google import fetch_traits as _fetch_traits # pylint: disable=unused-import
from searx.engines.google import (
get_google_info,
detect_google_sorry,
)
from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits
from searx.result_types import EngineResults
if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
from searx.extended_types import SXNG_Response
from searx.search.processors import OnlineParams
# about
about = {
"website": "https://news.google.com",
"wikidata_id": "Q12020",
"official_api_documentation": "https://developers.google.com/custom-search",
"use_official_api": False,
"require_api_key": False,
"results": "HTML",
}
# engine dependent config
categories = ["news"]
paging = False
time_range_support = False
# Google-News results are always *SafeSearch*. Option 'safesearch' is set to
# False here.
#
# safesearch : results are identical for safesearch=0 and safesearch=2
safesearch = True
base_url: str = "https://news.google.com"
def request(query: str, params: "OnlineParams") -> None:
"""Google-News search request"""
sxng_locale = params.get("searxng_locale", "en-US")
ceid: str = locales.get_engine_locale(
sxng_locale, traits.custom["ceid"], default="US:en"
) # pyright: ignore[reportAssignmentType]
google_info = get_google_info(params, traits)
google_info["subdomain"] = "news.google.com" # google news has only one domain
ceid_region, ceid_lang = ceid.split(":")
ceid_lang, ceid_suffix = (
ceid_lang.split(":")
+ [
"",
]
)[:2]
google_info["params"]["hl"] = ceid_lang
if ceid_suffix and ceid_suffix not in ["Hans", "Hant"]:
if ceid_region.lower() == ceid_lang:
google_info["params"]["hl"] = ceid_lang + "-" + ceid_region
else:
google_info["params"]["hl"] = ceid_lang + "-" + ceid_suffix
elif ceid_region.lower() != ceid_lang:
if ceid_region in ["AT", "BE", "CH", "IL", "SA", "IN", "BD", "PT"]:
google_info["params"]["hl"] = ceid_lang
else:
google_info["params"]["hl"] = ceid_lang + "-" + ceid_region
google_info["params"]["lr"] = "lang_" + ceid_lang.split("-")[0]
google_info["params"]["gl"] = ceid_region
query_url = (
"https://"
+ google_info["subdomain"]
+ "/search?"
+ urlencode(
{"q": query, **google_info["params"]},
)
# ceid includes a ':' character which must not be urlencoded
+ ("&ceid=%s" % ceid)
)
params["url"] = query_url
params["cookies"] = google_info["cookies"]
params["headers"].update(google_info["headers"])
def response(resp: "SXNG_Response") -> EngineResults:
"""Get response from google's search request"""
res = EngineResults()
detect_google_sorry(resp)
# convert the text to dom
dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
for result in eval_xpath_list(dom, "//div[@jslog and @data-n-tid and @jsdata]"):
url: str = eval_xpath_getindex(result, "./a[@target='_blank']/@href", 0, default=0)
if not url:
continue
if url.startswith("./"):
url = base_url + url[1:]
# The real URL is often encoded in the "jslog" attribute
jslog: str | None = eval_xpath_getindex(result, "./a[@target='_blank']/@jslog", 0, default=None)
# Try to extract the real URL from jslog
real_url: str | None = None
if jslog:
# jslog format is usually: "95014; 5:<base64>; track:click,vis". We
# want the second part (index 1) after splitting by ";"
parts: list[str] = jslog.split(";")
if len(parts) > 1:
b64_data: str = parts[1].split(":")[-1].strip()
# Pad base64 if necessary
b64_data += "=" * (-len(b64_data) % 4)
decoded_data: list[str | None] = json.loads(base64.b64decode(b64_data).decode("utf-8"))
# The URL is typically the last element in the decoded array
if (
isinstance(decoded_data, list)
and isinstance(decoded_data[-1], str)
and decoded_data[-1].startswith("http")
):
real_url = decoded_data[-1]
if real_url:
url = real_url
else:
logger.error(f"no real-url found: {url}")
continue
title = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, "./h4")) or ""
# The pub_date is mostly a string like 'yesterday', not a real timezone
# date or time. Therefore we can't use publishedDate and place the
# *pub* sting into the content.
pub_date = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, ".//time"))
pub_origin = extract_text(eval_xpath(result, ".//div[contains(@class, 'vr1PYe')]"))
content = " / ".join([x for x in [pub_origin, pub_date] if x])
thumbnail: str = eval_xpath_getindex(result, ".//figure/img/@src", 0, default="")
if thumbnail and thumbnail.startswith("/"):
thumbnail = base_url + thumbnail
res.add(
res.types.MainResult(
url=url,
title=title,
content=content,
thumbnail=thumbnail,
)
)
return res
ceid_list = [
"AE:ar",
"AR:es-419",
"AT:de",
"AU:en",
"BD:bn",
"BE:fr",
"BE:nl",
"BG:bg",
"BR:pt-419",
"BW:en",
"CA:en",
"CA:fr",
"CH:de",
"CH:fr",
"CL:es-419",
"CN:zh-Hans",
"CO:es-419",
"CU:es-419",
"CZ:cs",
"DE:de",
"EE:et",
"EG:ar",
"ES:ca",
"ES:es",
"ET:en",
"FI:fi",
"FR:fr",
"GB:en",
"GH:en",
"GR:el",
"HK:zh-Hant",
"HU:hu",
"ID:en",
"ID:id",
"IE:en",
"IL:en",
"IL:he",
"IN:bn",
"IN:en",
"IN:gu",
"IN:hi",
"IN:ml",
"IN:mr",
"IN:pa",
"IN:ta",
"IN:te",
"IT:it",
"JP:ja",
"KE:en",
"KR:ko",
"LB:ar",
"LT:lt",
"LV:en",
"LV:lv",
"MA:fr",
"MY:en",
"MY:ms",
"NA:en",
"NG:en",
"NL:nl",
"NO:no",
"NZ:en",
"PH:en",
"PK:en",
"PL:pl",
"RO:ro",
"RS:sr",
"RU:ru",
"SA:ar",
"SE:sv",
"SG:en",
"SI:sl",
"SK:sk",
"SN:fr",
"TH:th",
"TR:tr",
"TZ:en",
"UA:ru",
"UA:uk",
"UG:en",
"US:en",
"VN:vi",
"ZA:en",
"ZW:en",
]
"""List of region/language combinations supported by Google News. Values of the
``ceid`` argument of the Google News REST API."""
_skip_values = [
"ET:en", # english (ethiopia)
"ID:en", # english (indonesia)
"LV:en", # english (latvia)
]
_ceid_locale_map = {"NO:no": "nb-NO"}
def fetch_traits(engine_traits: EngineTraits):
_fetch_traits(engine_traits, add_domains=False)
engine_traits.custom["ceid"] = {}
for ceid in ceid_list:
if ceid in _skip_values:
continue
region, lang = ceid.split(":")
x = lang.split("-")
if len(x) > 1:
if x[1] not in ["Hant", "Hans"]:
lang = x[0]
sxng_locale = _ceid_locale_map.get(ceid, lang + "-" + region)
try:
locale = babel.Locale.parse(sxng_locale, sep="-")
except babel.UnknownLocaleError:
print("ERROR: %s -> %s is unknown by babel" % (ceid, sxng_locale))
continue
engine_traits.custom["ceid"][locales.region_tag(locale)] = ceid