use std::collections::HashMap; use reqwest::header::USER_AGENT; use scraper::{Html, Selector}; use crate::search_results_handler::aggregation_models::RawSearchResult; // This function scrapes results from the upstream engine duckduckgo and puts all the scraped // results like title, visiting_url (href in html),engine (from which engine it was fetched from) // and description in a RawSearchResult and then adds that to HashMap whose keys are url and // values are RawSearchResult struct and then returns it within a Result enum. pub async fn results( query: &str, page: Option, user_agent: &str, ) -> Result, Box> { // Page number can be missing or empty string and so appropriate handling is required // so that upstream server recieves valid page number. let url: String = match page { Some(page_number) => { if page_number <= 1 { format!("https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q={query}&s=&dc=&v=1&o=json&api=/d.js") } else { format!( "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q={}&s={}&dc={}&v=1&o=json&api=/d.js", query, page_number / 2 * 30, page_number / 2 * 30 + 1 ) } } None => format!("https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q={query}&s=&dc=&v=1&o=json&api=/d.js"), }; // fetch the html from upstream duckduckgo engine // TODO: Write better error handling code to handle no results case. let results: String = reqwest::Client::new() .get(url) .header(USER_AGENT, user_agent) .send() .await? .text() .await?; let document: Html = Html::parse_document(&results); let results: Selector = Selector::parse(".result")?; let result_title: Selector = Selector::parse(".result__a")?; let result_url: Selector = Selector::parse(".result__url")?; let result_desc: Selector = Selector::parse(".result__snippet")?; let mut search_results: HashMap = HashMap::new(); // scrape all the results from the html for result in document.select(&results) { let search_result: RawSearchResult = RawSearchResult { title: result .select(&result_title) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() .to_string(), visiting_url: format!( "https://{}", result .select(&result_url) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() ), description: result .select(&result_desc) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() .to_string(), engine: vec!["duckduckgo".to_string()], }; search_results.insert( format!( "https://{}", result .select(&result_url) .next() .unwrap() .inner_html() .trim() ), search_result, ); } Ok(search_results) }