searxng/searxng · error · SearxEngineAccessDeniedException

Access denied

Error message

Access denied

What it means

Error "Access denied" thrown in searxng/searxng.

Source

Thrown at searx/engines/seznam.py:49

    dom = html.fromstring(response_index.text)

    url_params = {
        'q': query,
        'oq': query,
    }
    for e in eval_xpath_list(dom, '//input[@type="hidden"]'):
        name = e.get('name')
        value = e.get('value')
        url_params[name] = value

    params['url'] = base_url + '?' + urlencode(url_params)
    params['cookies'] = response_index.cookies
    return params


def response(resp):
    if resp.url.path.startswith('/verify'):
        raise SearxEngineAccessDeniedException()

    results = []

    dom = html.fromstring(resp.content.decode())
    for result_element in eval_xpath_list(
        dom, '//div[@id="searchpage-root"]//div[@class="Layout--left"]/div[@class="f2c528"]'
    ):
        result_data = eval_xpath_getindex(
            result_element, './/div[@class="c8774a" or @class="e69e8d a11657"]', 0, default=None
        )
        if result_data is None:
            continue
        title_element = eval_xpath_getindex(result_element, './/h3/a', 0)
        results.append(
            {
                'url': title_element.get('href'),
                'title': extract_text(title_element),
                'content': extract_text(result_data),

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at searx/engines/seznam.py:49 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

Understand the failure class

• Authentication and authorization failures — expired tokens, bad credentials, and missing scopes.

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