searxng/searxng · error · ValueError

invalid category: %s

Error message

invalid category: %s

What it means

Error "invalid category: %s" thrown in searxng/searxng.

Source

Thrown at searx/engines/vuhuv.py:43

    "use_official_api": False,
    "require_api_key": False,
    "results": "HTML",
}

paging = True

base_url = "https://vuhuv.com"
vuhuv_category = "general"
"""Supported categories are ``general``, ``videos`` and ``images``."""


# corresponds to the "k" query param
category_map = {"general": 1, "images": 2, "videos": 3}


def init(_):
    if vuhuv_category not in category_map:
        raise ValueError("invalid category: %s" % vuhuv_category)


def request(query: str, params: "OnlineParams") -> None:
    # the purpose of "d" and "dh" are unknown, but the website
    # sends them, and without them the results are different
    args = {"k": category_map[vuhuv_category], "p": params["pageno"], "q": query, "d": 1, "dh": 1}
    params["url"] = f"{base_url}/veri2/?{urlencode(args)}"
    params["headers"]["Referer"] = f"{base_url}/"


def _general_results(doc: "ElementBase") -> EngineResults:
    res = EngineResults()
    for result in eval_xpath_list(doc, "//div[contains(@class, 'sonuc')]/div"):
        (
            res.add(
                res.types.MainResult(
                    url=extract_text(eval_xpath(result, "./a/@href")) or "",
                    title=extract_text(eval_xpath(result, "./a/span")) or "",

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at searx/engines/vuhuv.py:43 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of searxng/searxng@9fea41204f (2026-08-27). Data as JSON: /api/errors/987f5acbeeddbd29. Report an issue: GitHub.