Nick: improvements to search

apps/api/src/controllers/search.ts

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export async function searchHelper(
     return { success: true, data: res, returnCode: 200 };
   }
 
-  res = res.filter((r) => !isUrlBlocked(r));
+  res = res.filter((r) => !isUrlBlocked(r.url));
 
   if (res.length === 0) {
     return { success: true, error: "No search results found", returnCode: 200 };
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export async function searchHelper(
   const a = new WebScraperDataProvider();
   await a.setOptions({
     mode: "single_urls",
-    urls: res.map((r) => r),
+    urls: res.map((r) => r.url),
     crawlerOptions: {
       ...crawlerOptions,
     },

apps/api/src/lib/entities.ts

@@ -71,3 +71,20 @@ export class Document {
     this.provider = data.provider || undefined;
   }
 }
+
+
+export class SearchResult {
+  url: string;
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+
+  constructor(url: string, title: string, description: string) {
+      this.url = url;
+      this.title = title;
+      this.description = description;
+  }
+
+  toString(): string {
+      return `SearchResult(url=${this.url}, title=${this.title}, description=${this.description})`;
+  }
+}

apps/api/src/search/googlesearch.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import axios from 'axios';
 import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
 import * as querystring from 'querystring';
+import { SearchResult } from '../../src/lib/entities';
 
 const _useragent_list = [
     'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0',
@@ -47,23 +48,9 @@ async function _req(term: string, results: number, lang: string, start: number,
     }
 }
 
-class SearchResult {
-    url: string;
-    title: string;
-    description: string;
 
-    constructor(url: string, title: string, description: string) {
-        this.url = url;
-        this.title = title;
-        this.description = description;
-    }
 
-    toString(): string {
-        return `SearchResult(url=${this.url}, title=${this.title}, description=${this.description})`;
-    }
-}
-
-export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results = 7, tbs = null, filter = null, lang = "en", proxy = null, sleep_interval = 0, timeout = 5000, ) :Promise<string[]> {
+export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results = 7, tbs = null, filter = null, lang = "en", proxy = null, sleep_interval = 0, timeout = 5000, ) :Promise<SearchResult[]> {
     const escaped_term = querystring.escape(term);
 
     let proxies = null;
@@ -78,7 +65,7 @@ export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results
     // TODO: knowledge graph, answer box, etc.
 
     let start = 0;
-    let results : string[] = [];
+    let results : SearchResult[] = [];
     let attempts = 0;
     const maxAttempts = 20; // Define a maximum number of attempts to prevent infinite loop
     while (start < num_results && attempts < maxAttempts) {
@@ -103,11 +90,7 @@ export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results
                     const description = description_box.text();
                     if (link && title && description) {
                         start += 1;
-                        if (advanced) {
-                            // results.push(new SearchResult(link, title.text(), description));
-                        } else {
-                            results.push(link);
-                        }
+                        results.push(new SearchResult(link, title.text(), description));
                     }
                 }
             });

apps/api/src/search/index.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { SearchResult } from "../../src/lib/entities";
 import { google_search } from "./googlesearch";
 import { serper_search } from "./serper";
 
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ export async function search({
   proxy?: string;
   sleep_interval?: number;
   timeout?: number;
-}) {
+}) : Promise<SearchResult[]> {
   try {
     if (process.env.SERPER_API_KEY && !tbs) {
       return await serper_search(query, num_results);

apps/api/src/search/serper.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import axios from "axios";
 import dotenv from "dotenv";
+import { SearchResult } from "../../src/lib/entities";
 
 dotenv.config();
 
-export async function serper_search(q, num_results) : Promise<string[]> {
+export async function serper_search(q, num_results): Promise<SearchResult[]> {
   let data = JSON.stringify({
     q: q,
-    "num": num_results,
-    
+    num: num_results,
   });
 
   let config = {
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ export async function serper_search(q, num_results) : Promise<string[]> {
   };
   const response = await axios(config);
   if (response && response.data && Array.isArray(response.data.organic)) {
-    return response.data.organic.map((a) => a.link);
+    return response.data.organic.map((a) => ({
+      url: a.link,
+      title: a.title,
+      description: a.snippet,
+    }));
   }else{
     return [];
   }