Merge pull request #1846 from piplongrun/autocomplete_swisscows

Add Swisscows autocomplete option

searx/autocomplete.py

@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ def startpage(query, lang):
     return []
 
 
+def swisscows(query, lang):
+    # swisscows autocompleter
+    url = 'https://swisscows.ch/api/suggest?{query}&itemsCount=5'
+
+    resp = loads(get(url.format(query=urlencode({'query': query}))).text)
+    return resp
+
+
 def qwant(query, lang):
     # qwant autocompleter (additional parameter : lang=en_en&count=xxx )
     url = 'https://api.qwant.com/api/suggest?{query}'
@@ -196,6 +204,7 @@ backends = {'dbpedia': dbpedia,
             'duckduckgo': duckduckgo,
             'google': google,
             'startpage': startpage,
+            'swisscows': swisscows,
             'qwant': qwant,
             'wikipedia': wikipedia
             }

searx/settings.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ general:
 
 search:
     safe_search : 0 # Filter results. 0: None, 1: Moderate, 2: Strict
-    autocomplete : "" # Existing autocomplete backends: "dbpedia", "duckduckgo", "google", "startpage", "wikipedia" - leave blank to turn it off by default
+    autocomplete : "" # Existing autocomplete backends: "dbpedia", "duckduckgo", "google", "startpage", "swisscows", "qwant", "wikipedia" - leave blank to turn it off by default
     default_lang : "" # Default search language - leave blank to detect from browser information or use codes from 'languages.py'
     ban_time_on_fail : 5 # ban time in seconds after engine errors
     max_ban_time_on_fail : 120 # max ban time in seconds after engine errors