[fix] searchzee: bypass botblocking

requires https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/6620

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/searx/engines/searchzee.py b/searx/engines/searchzee.py
index 00cc51fb5..7573005e8 100644
--- a/searx/engines/searchzee.py
+++ b/searx/engines/searchzee.py
@@ -4,13 +4,11 @@ independent search infrastructure."""
 
 import typing as t
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
+import uuid
 
-from searx.exceptions import SearxEngineAPIException
 from searx.extended_types import SXNG_Response
-from searx.network import get
 from searx.result_types import EngineResults
-from searx.utils import extr, html_to_text
-from searx.enginelib import EngineCache
+from searx.utils import html_to_text
 
 if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
     from searx.search.processors import OnlineParams
@@ -34,43 +32,19 @@ SearchzeeCategType = t.Literal["web", "news"]
 searchzee_categ: SearchzeeCategType = None  # type: ignore[reportAssignmentType]
 
 
-CACHE: EngineCache
-"""Cache for storing the scraped API Token."""
-
 base_url = "https://searchzee.com"
 
 # only supports for news
 time_range_map = {"day": "pd", "week": "pw", "month": "pm", "year": "py"}
 
 
-def setup(engine_settings: dict[str, t.Any]) -> bool:
+def setup(_: dict[str, t.Any]):
     if searchzee_categ not in t.get_args(SearchzeeCategType):
         raise ValueError("invalid category: %s" % searchzee_categ)
 
-    global CACHE  # pylint: disable=global-statement
-    CACHE = EngineCache(engine_settings["name"])  # type: ignore[reportAny]
-    return True
-
-
-def _obtain_api_token() -> str:
-    token: str | None = CACHE.get("token")  # type: ignore[reportAny]
-    if token:
-        return token
-
-    token_resp = get(
-        f"{base_url}/app.js",
-    )
-    if not token_resp.ok:
-        raise SearxEngineAPIException("failed to obtain api key")
-
-    token = extr(token_resp.text, "const SEARCHZEE_API_TOKEN = \"", "\";")
-    CACHE.set("token", token, expire=3600)
-
-    return token
-
 
 def request(query: str, params: "OnlineParams"):
-    params["headers"]["X-SearchZee-Token"] = _obtain_api_token()
+    params["cookies"]["szs"] = str(uuid.uuid4())
 
     args = {"q": query, "type": searchzee_categ, "offset": params["pageno"] - 1}
     if params["time_range"]: