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bugfix(!biv) : bing-video do not like "older" User-Agents

When selecting other languages than 'en', bing-video did not handle the language correct and gave very bad results. Since User-Agent is normaly rotated in searx, the behavior of a !biv search was unpredictable and paging was broken. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>

commitad7a6e6e1022923850343b2c19e47bbd9fbad050 authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> dateSun 1 Mar 2020, 17:28 (7 years ago) parent1c853f9
1 file changed+4
searx/engines/bing_videos.py+4
searx/engines/bing_videos.py+4
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ def request(query, params):
6767 if params['time_range'] in time_range_dict:
6868 params['url'] += time_range_string.format(interval=time_range_dict[params['time_range']])
6969
70+ # bing videos did not like "older" versions < 70.0.1 when selectin other
71+ # languages then 'en' .. very strange ?!?!
72+ params['headers']['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:73.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0.1'
73+
7074 return params
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