## Stackoverflow (It) # # @website https://stackoverflow.com/ # @provide-api not clear (https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search) # # @using-api no # @results HTML # @stable no (HTML can change) # @parse url, title, content from urlparse import urljoin from cgi import escape from urllib import urlencode from lxml import html # engine dependent config categories = ['it'] paging = True # search-url url = 'http://stackoverflow.com/' search_url = url+'search?{query}&page={pageno}' # specific xpath variables results_xpath = '//div[contains(@class,"question-summary")]' link_xpath = './/div[@class="result-link"]//a|.//div[@class="summary"]//h3//a' title_xpath = './/text()' content_xpath = './/div[@class="excerpt"]//text()' # do search-request def request(query, params): params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query}), pageno=params['pageno']) return params # get response from search-request def response(resp): results = [] dom = html.fromstring(resp.text) # parse results for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath): link = result.xpath(link_xpath)[0] href = urljoin(url, link.attrib.get('href')) title = escape(' '.join(link.xpath(title_xpath))) content = escape(' '.join(result.xpath(content_xpath))) # append result results.append({'url': href, 'title': title, 'content': content}) # return results return results