old_contents: from urllib import urlencode
  from json import loads
  from lxml import html
  
  categories = ['videos']
  locale = 'en_US'
  
  # see http://www.dailymotion.com/doc/api/obj-video.html
  search_url = 'https://api.dailymotion.com/videos?fields=title,description,duration,url,thumbnail_360_url&sort=relevance&limit=25&page={pageno}&{query}'  # noqa
  
  # TODO use video result template
  content_tpl = '<a href="{0}" title="{0}" ><img src="{1}" /></a><br />'
  
  paging = True
  
  
  def request(query, params):
      params['url'] = search_url.format(
          query=urlencode({'search': query, 'localization': locale}),
          pageno=params['pageno'])
      return params
  
  
  def response(resp):
      results = []
      search_res = loads(resp.text)
      if not 'list' in search_res:
          return results
      for res in search_res['list']:
          title = res['title']
          url = res['url']
          if res['thumbnail_360_url']:
              content = content_tpl.format(url, res['thumbnail_360_url'])
          else:
              content = ''
          if res['description']:
              description = text_content_from_html(res['description'])
              content += description[:500]
          results.append({'url': url, 'title': title, 'content': content})
      return results
  
  
  def text_content_from_html(html_string):
      desc_html = html.fragment_fromstring(html_string, create_parent=True)
      return desc_html.text_content()
  
new_contents: ## Dailymotion (Videos)
  # 
  # @website     https://www.dailymotion.com
  # @provide-api yes (http://www.dailymotion.com/developer)
  # 
  # @using-api   yes
  # @results     JSON
  # @stable      yes
  # @parse       url, title, thumbnail
  #
  # @todo        set content-parameter with correct data
  
  from urllib import urlencode
  from json import loads
  from lxml import html
  
  # engine dependent config
  categories = ['videos']
  locale = 'en_US'
  paging = True
  
  # search-url
  # see http://www.dailymotion.com/doc/api/obj-video.html
  search_url = 'https://api.dailymotion.com/videos?fields=title,description,duration,url,thumbnail_360_url&sort=relevance&limit=5&page={pageno}&{query}'  # noqa
  
  
  # do search-request
  def request(query, params):
      params['url'] = search_url.format(
          query=urlencode({'search': query, 'localization': locale}),
          pageno=params['pageno'])
  
      return params
  
  
  # get response from search-request
  def response(resp):
      results = []
  
      search_res = loads(resp.text)
  
      # return empty array if there are no results
      if not 'list' in search_res:
          return []
  
      # parse results
      for res in search_res['list']:
          title = res['title']
          url = res['url']
          #content = res['description']
          content = ''
          thumbnail = res['thumbnail_360_url']
  
          results.append({'template': 'videos.html',
                          'url': url,
                          'title': title,
                          'content': content,
                          'thumbnail': thumbnail})
  
      # return results
      return results
  
subject: fix dailymotion engine and add comments to it