old_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  from urllib import urlencode
  from lxml import html
  from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text, extract_url
  from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url
  from datetime import datetime
  
  categories = ['news']
  search_url = 'http://news.search.yahoo.com/search?{query}&b={offset}'
  results_xpath = '//div[@class="res"]'
  url_xpath = './/h3/a/@href'
  title_xpath = './/h3/a'
  content_xpath = './/div[@class="abstr"]'
  publishedDate_xpath = './/span[@class="timestamp"]'
  suggestion_xpath = '//div[@id="satat"]//a'
  
  paging = True
  
  
  def request(query, params):
      offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 10 + 1
      if params['language'] == 'all':
          language = 'en'
      else:
          language = params['language'].split('_')[0]
      params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
                                        query=urlencode({'p': query}))
      params['cookies']['sB'] = 'fl=1&vl=lang_{lang}&sh=1&rw=new&v=1'\
          .format(lang=language)
      return params
  
  
  def response(resp):
      results = []
      dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
  
      for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
          url = parse_url(extract_url(result.xpath(url_xpath), search_url))
          title = extract_text(result.xpath(title_xpath)[0])
          content = extract_text(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0])
  # Feb 20 04:02am
          publishedDate = datetime.strptime(extract_text(result.xpath(publishedDate_xpath)[0]),"%b %d %H:%M%p")
          #publishedDate.replace(year=2014)
          results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content,'publishedDate':publishedDate})
  
      if not suggestion_xpath:
          return results
  
      for suggestion in dom.xpath(suggestion_xpath):
          results.append({'suggestion': extract_text(suggestion)})
  
      return results
  
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  from urllib import urlencode
  from lxml import html
  from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text, extract_url
  from searx.engines.yahoo import parse_url
  from datetime import datetime, timedelta
  import re
  
  categories = ['news']
  search_url = 'http://news.search.yahoo.com/search?{query}&b={offset}'
  results_xpath = '//div[@class="res"]'
  url_xpath = './/h3/a/@href'
  title_xpath = './/h3/a'
  content_xpath = './/div[@class="abstr"]'
  publishedDate_xpath = './/span[@class="timestamp"]'
  suggestion_xpath = '//div[@id="satat"]//a'
  
  paging = True
  
  
  def request(query, params):
      offset = (params['pageno'] - 1) * 10 + 1
      if params['language'] == 'all':
          language = 'en'
      else:
          language = params['language'].split('_')[0]
      params['url'] = search_url.format(offset=offset,
                                        query=urlencode({'p': query}))
      params['cookies']['sB'] = 'fl=1&vl=lang_{lang}&sh=1&rw=new&v=1'\
          .format(lang=language)
      return params
  
  
  def response(resp):
      results = []
      dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
  
      for result in dom.xpath(results_xpath):
          url = parse_url(extract_url(result.xpath(url_xpath), search_url))
          title = extract_text(result.xpath(title_xpath)[0])
          content = extract_text(result.xpath(content_xpath)[0])
          publishedDate = extract_text(result.xpath(publishedDate_xpath)[0])
  
          if re.match("^[0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
              publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(minutes=int(re.match(r'\d+', publishedDate).group()))
          else:
              if re.match("^[0-9]+ hour(s|), [0-9]+ minute(s|) ago$", publishedDate):
                  timeNumbers = re.findall(r'\d+', publishedDate)
                  publishedDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(hours=int(timeNumbers[0])) - timedelta(minutes=int(timeNumbers[1]))
              else:
                  # TODO year in string possible?
                  publishedDate = datetime.strptime(publishedDate,"%b %d %H:%M%p")
  
          if publishedDate.year == 1900:
              publishedDate = publishedDate.replace(year=datetime.now().year)
  
          results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content,'publishedDate':publishedDate})
  
      if not suggestion_xpath:
          return results
  
      for suggestion in dom.xpath(suggestion_xpath):
          results.append({'suggestion': extract_text(suggestion)})
  
      return results
  
subject: improve publishDate extraction from yahoo