Support for tbs, filter, lang, country and location with Serper search.

apps/api/src/controllers/search.ts

@@ -29,7 +29,16 @@ export async function searchHelper(
   const tbs = searchOptions.tbs ?? null;
   const filter = searchOptions.filter ?? null;
 
-  let res = await search({query: query, advanced: advanced, num_results: searchOptions.limit ?? 7, tbs: tbs, filter: filter});
+  let res = await search({
+    query: query,
+    advanced: advanced,
+    num_results: searchOptions.limit ?? 7,
+    tbs: tbs,
+    filter: filter,
+    lang: searchOptions.lang ?? "en",
+    country: searchOptions.country ?? "us",
+    location: searchOptions.location,
+  });
 
   let justSearch = pageOptions.fetchPageContent === false;
 

apps/api/src/lib/entities.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ export type SearchOptions = {
   limit?: number;
   tbs?: string;
   filter?: string;
+  lang?: string;
+  country?: string;
+  location?: string;
 };
 
 export type WebScraperOptions = {

apps/api/src/search/googlesearch.ts

@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ function get_useragent(): string {
     return _useragent_list[Math.floor(Math.random() * _useragent_list.length)];
 }
 
-async function _req(term: string, results: number, lang: string, start: number, proxies: any, timeout: number, tbs: string = null, filter: string = null) {
+async function _req(term: string, results: number, lang: string, country: string, start: number, proxies: any, timeout: number, tbs: string = null, filter: string = null) {
     const params = {
         "q": term,
         "num": results,  // Number of results to return
         "hl": lang,
+        "gl": country,
         "start": start,
     };
     if (tbs) {
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ async function _req(term: string, results: number, lang: string, start: number,
 
 
 
-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[]> {
+export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results = 7, tbs = null, filter = null, lang = "en", country = "us", proxy = null, sleep_interval = 0, timeout = 5000, ) :Promise<SearchResult[]> {
     const escaped_term = querystring.escape(term);
 
     let proxies = null;
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ export async function google_search(term: string, advanced = false, num_results
     const maxAttempts = 20; // Define a maximum number of attempts to prevent infinite loop
     while (start < num_results && attempts < maxAttempts) {
         try {
-            const resp = await _req(escaped_term, num_results - start, lang, start, proxies, timeout, tbs, filter);
+            const resp = await _req(escaped_term, num_results - start, lang, country, start, proxies, timeout, tbs, filter);
             const $ = cheerio.load(resp.data);
             const result_block = $("div.g");
             if (result_block.length === 0) {

apps/api/src/search/index.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export async function search({
   tbs = null,
   filter = null,
   lang = "en",
+  country = "us",
+  location = undefined,
   proxy = null,
   sleep_interval = 0,
   timeout = 5000,
@@ -19,13 +21,15 @@ export async function search({
   tbs?: string;
   filter?: string;
   lang?: string;
+  country?: string;
+  location?: string;
   proxy?: string;
   sleep_interval?: number;
   timeout?: number;
 }) : Promise<SearchResult[]> {
   try {
     if (process.env.SERPER_API_KEY && !tbs) {
-      return await serper_search(query, num_results);
+      return await serper_search(query, {num_results, tbs, filter, lang, country, location});
     }
     return await google_search(
       query,
@@ -34,6 +38,7 @@ export async function search({
       tbs,
       filter,
       lang,
+      country,
       proxy,
       sleep_interval,
       timeout

apps/api/src/search/serper.ts

@@ -4,10 +4,23 @@ import { SearchResult } from "../../src/lib/entities";
 
 dotenv.config();
 
-export async function serper_search(q, num_results): Promise<SearchResult[]> {
+export async function serper_search(q, options: {
+    tbs?: string;
+    filter?: string;
+    lang?: string;
+    country?: string;
+    location?: string;
+    num_results: number;
+    page?: number;
+}): Promise<SearchResult[]> {
   let data = JSON.stringify({
     q: q,
-    num: num_results,
+    hl: options.lang,
+    gl: options.country,
+    location: options.location,
+    tbs: options.tbs,
+    num: options.num_results,
+    page: options.page ?? 1,
   });
 
   let config = {