Bug: qwant engine

[HLShls123]

Version of SearXNG, commit number if you are using on master branch and stipulate if you forked SearXNG Repository: https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng Branch: main Version: 1.0.0

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Error

• Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineAPIException
• Percentage: 70
• Parameters: ('API error::unknown',)
• File name: searx/engines/qwant.py:123
• Function: response
• Code: raise SearxEngineAPIException('API error::' + msg)

Error

• Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineAPIException
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: ('API error::q must be longer than or equal to 1 characters',)
• File name: searx/engines/qwant.py:123
• Function: response
• Code: raise SearxEngineAPIException('API error::' + msg)

Error

• Error: timeout
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: ()
• File name: searx/search/processors/abstract.py:102
• Function: handle_exception
• Code: count_error(self.engine_name, exception_or_message)

Error

• Error: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: ('Expecting value',)
• File name: searx/engines/qwant.py:110
• Function: response
• Code: search_results = loads(resp.text)

Error

• Error: httpx.TimeoutException
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, None)
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:96
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

Error

• Error: httpx.ReadTimeout
• Percentage: 0
• Parameters: (None, None, 'api.qwant.com')
• File name: searx/search/processors/online.py:96
• Function: _send_http_request
• Code: response = req(params['url'], **request_args)

[mrpaulblack]

Hi @HLShls123 , Thanks for the issue. Qwant seems break since yesterday on my instance and I am not really sure why yet. Looking at other instances they work fine: https://searx.tiekoetter.com/search?q=%21qwant+time&category_general=on&language=en-US&time_range=&safesearch=0&theme=simple

So I am guessing they blocked my instance or something!?

here is the exception log from my instance:

2022-02-04 11:09:52,579 WARNING:searx.engines.qwant: ErrorContext('searx/engines/qwant.py', 123, "raise SearxEngineAPIException('API error::' + msg)", 'searx.exceptions.SearxEngineAPIException', None, ('API error::unknown',)) False
2022-02-04 11:09:52,580 ERROR:searx.engines.qwant: exception : API error::unknown
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py", line 143, in search
    search_results = self._search_basic(query, params)
  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/search/processors/online.py", line 131, in _search_basic
    return self.engine.response(response)
  File "/usr/local/searxng/searx/engines/qwant.py", line 123, in response
    raise SearxEngineAPIException('API error::' + msg)
searx.exceptions.SearxEngineAPIException: API error::unknown

I will keep this ticket open and update if a fix is found...

[EDIT] I tried a example query on my local machine and my VPS: curl -i 'https://api.qwant.com/v3/search/web?q=time&count=10&offset=0&locale=en_US' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0'

On my local machine it returned results

the same query returned an error on my instance: {"status":"error","data":{"error_code":24}} I think the only efficient way around this is an HTTP proxy tbh...

[mrpaulblack]

Qwant is not blocking nor rate limiting my public instances IP for 3 days now; Closing (For now, going to reopen if this happens again).