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  1. package/README.cn.md +168 -8
  2. package/README.md +168 -8
  3. package/dist/index.d.mts +221 -12
  4. package/dist/index.d.ts +221 -12
  5. package/dist/index.js +1 -1
  6. package/dist/index.mjs +1 -1
  7. package/docs/README.md +168 -8
  8. package/docs/classes/GoogleSearcher.md +171 -44
  9. package/docs/classes/WebSearcher.md +158 -45
  10. package/docs/functions/extractDate.md +42 -0
  11. package/docs/functions/extractMetadataFrom.md +40 -0
  12. package/docs/functions/fetchHeaders.md +34 -0
  13. package/docs/functions/fetchPartial.md +41 -0
  14. package/docs/functions/normalizeDate.md +29 -0
  15. package/docs/functions/parseHeaders.md +28 -0
  16. package/docs/functions/parseHtml.md +31 -0
  17. package/docs/functions/testUrlsByLatency.md +38 -0
  18. package/docs/globals.md +18 -0
  19. package/docs/interfaces/CustomTimeRange.md +3 -3
  20. package/docs/interfaces/ExtractOptions.md +54 -0
  21. package/docs/interfaces/FetchExtractorOptions.md +35 -0
  22. package/docs/interfaces/FetcherOptions.md +424 -0
  23. package/docs/interfaces/HtmlData.md +53 -0
  24. package/docs/interfaces/MetadataResult.md +27 -0
  25. package/docs/interfaces/PaginationConfig.md +9 -9
  26. package/docs/interfaces/SearchContext.md +30 -4
  27. package/docs/interfaces/SearchOptions.md +77 -11
  28. package/docs/interfaces/StandardSearchResult.md +10 -10
  29. package/docs/interfaces/VerifiedUrl.md +25 -0
  30. package/docs/type-aliases/MetadataType.md +13 -0
  31. package/docs/type-aliases/SafeSearchLevel.md +1 -1
  32. package/docs/type-aliases/SearchCategory.md +2 -2
  33. package/docs/type-aliases/SearchTimeRange.md +1 -1
  34. package/docs/type-aliases/SearchTimeRangePreset.md +2 -2
  35. package/docs/type-aliases/SearcherConstructor.md +2 -2
  36. package/package.json +3 -2
package/dist/index.mjs CHANGED
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- import{FetchSession as t}from"@isdk/web-fetcher";import{addBaseFactoryAbility as r}from"custom-factory";import{isPlainObject as e}from"lodash-es";function s(t,r){if("string"==typeof t)return t.replace(/\$\{(.*?)\}/g,(t,e)=>{const s=r[e.trim()];return void 0!==s?String(s):""});if(Array.isArray(t))return t.map(t=>s(t,r));if(e(t)){const e={};for(const a in t)Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(t,a)&&(e[a]=s(t[a],r));return e}return t}import{defaultsDeep as a}from"lodash-es";var i=class extends t{static async search(t,r,e={}){const s=this.createObject(t,e);if(!s)throw new Error(`Search engine not found: ${t}`);try{return await s.search(r,e)}finally{await s.dispose()}}get pagination(){}createContext(t=this.options){const r=this.template,e=a({},r,t);return r.engine&&"auto"!==r.engine||!t.engine||(e.engine=t.engine),super.createContext(e)}async search(t,r={}){const e=r.limit||10,i=[];let o=0;const n=this.pagination?.startValue??0,c=this.pagination?.increment??1,h=r.maxPages||this.pagination?.maxPages||10;for(;i.length<e;){const l=this.formatOptions(r),m=n+o*c,f={...r,...l,query:t,page:o+n,offset:m,limit:e},u=s(this.template,f),p=a({},u,r),d=[];if(0===o||"url-param"===this.pagination?.type?p.url&&d.push({id:"goto",params:{url:p.url}}):"click-next"===this.pagination?.type&&this.pagination.nextButtonSelector&&(d.push({id:"click",params:{selector:this.pagination.nextButtonSelector}}),d.push({id:"waitFor",params:{networkIdle:!0,ms:500}})),p.actions){const t=p.actions.filter(t=>!(d.length>0&&"goto"===d[0].id&&"goto"===t.id));d.push(...t)}p.engine&&this.context.engine!==p.engine&&p.engine;const{outputs:w}=await this.executeAll(d),g={query:t,page:o,limit:r.limit};let y=[];if(y=await this.transform(w,g),r.transform&&(y=await r.transform(y,g)),!y||0===y.length)break;if(i.push(...y),i.length>=e||!this.pagination)break;if(o++,o>=h)break}return i.slice(0,e)}async transform(t,r){return t.results||[]}formatOptions(t){return{...t}}};i._isFactory=!1,r(i),i.prototype.name="Searcher";var o=class extends i{get template(){return{engine:"browser",browser:{headless:!1},url:"https://www.google.com/search?q=${query}&start=${offset}&tbs=${tbs}&tbm=${tbm}&gl=${gl}&hl=${hl}&safe=${safe}",actions:[{id:"extract",storeAs:"results",params:{type:"array",selector:"#main #search",items:{url:{selector:"a:has(h3)",attribute:"href",required:!0},title:{selector:"a:has(h3) h3",required:!0,mode:"innerText"},snippet:{selector:"div[style*='-webkit-line-clamp']",type:"html"}}}}]}}get pagination(){return{type:"url-param",paramName:"start",startValue:0,increment:10}}formatOptions(t){const r={};if(t.timeRange)if("string"==typeof t.timeRange){const e={day:"qdr:d",week:"qdr:w",month:"qdr:m",year:"qdr:y"};e[t.timeRange]&&(r.tbs=e[t.timeRange])}else{const e=new Date(t.timeRange.from),s=t.timeRange.to?new Date(t.timeRange.to):new Date;if(!isNaN(e.getTime())&&!isNaN(s.getTime())){const t=t=>`${t.getMonth()+1}/${t.getDate()}/${t.getFullYear()}`;r.tbs=`cdr:1,cd_min:${t(e)},cd_max:${t(s)}`}}if(t.category){const e={images:"isch",videos:"vid",news:"nws"};e[t.category]&&(r.tbm=e[t.category])}return t.region&&(r.gl=t.region),t.language&&(r.hl=t.language),t.safeSearch&&("strict"===t.safeSearch?r.safe="active":"off"===t.safeSearch&&(r.safe="images")),r}async transform(t){const r=t.results||[];return Array.isArray(r)?r.map(t=>{if(t.url&&t.url.startsWith("/url?q="))try{const r=new URL(t.url,"https://www.google.com").searchParams.get("q");r&&(t.url=r)}catch(t){}return t}):[]}};o.alias=["google"];export{o as GoogleSearcher,i as WebSearcher};
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+ async function t(t,e={}){const{timeout:r=5e3,headers:n}=e,s=new AbortController,i=setTimeout(()=>s.abort(),r);try{return(await fetch(t,{method:"HEAD",signal:s.signal,headers:{"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",...n}})).headers}catch(t){return null}finally{clearTimeout(i)}}async function e(t,e=32768,r={}){const{timeout:n=1e4,headers:s}=r,i=new AbortController,o=setTimeout(()=>i.abort(),n);let a="",c=new Headers;try{const r=await fetch(t,{signal:i.signal,headers:{"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",...s}});if(c=r.headers,!r.ok||!r.body)return null;const n=r.headers.get("content-type"),o=n?.match(/charset=([\w-]+)/i),l=o?o[1]:"utf-8",u=r.body.getReader(),f=new TextDecoder(l);let d=0;for(;;)try{const{done:t,value:r}=await u.read();if(t)break;if(d+=r.length,a+=f.decode(r,{stream:!0}),d>=e){i.abort();break}}catch(t){if("AbortError"===t.name)break;throw t}return{content:a,headers:c}}catch(t){return a.length>0?{content:a,headers:c}:null}finally{clearTimeout(o)}}function r(t){const e={};return t.forEach((t,r)=>{e[r.toLowerCase()]=t}),e}function n(t){const e={meta:{},jsonLd:[],time:[]},r=/<meta\s+([^>]+?)>/gi;let n;for(;null!==(n=r.exec(t));){const t=i(n[1]),r=t.name||t.property||t.itemprop,s=t.content;r&&s&&(e.meta[r.toLowerCase()]=s)}const o=/<script\s+[^>]*?type\s*=\s*["']application\/ld\+json["'][^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/gi;for(;null!==(n=o.exec(t));){const t=n[1];try{const r=JSON.parse(t);e.jsonLd.push(r)}catch(r){const n=s(t);n&&e.jsonLd.push(n)}}const a=/<time([^>]*?)>([\s\S]*?)<\/time>/gi;for(;null!==(n=a.exec(t));){const t=i(n[1]).datetime,r=n[2].replace(/<[^>]*>/g,"").trim();e.time.push({datetime:t,text:r})}return e}function s(t){const 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e=["datePublished","dateModified","pubDate","publishedAt"],r=t=>{if(!t||"object"!=typeof t)return null;for(const r of e)if("string"==typeof t[r])return t[r];if(Array.isArray(t))for(const e of t){const t=r(e);if(t)return t}else if(t["@graph"]&&Array.isArray(t["@graph"]))return r(t["@graph"]);return null};return r(t)}(t.jsonLd),s=o(n);if(s)return s;const i=function(t){const e=["article:published_time","og:published_time","datepublished","date","pubdate","publishdate","dc.date.issued","bt:pubdate","sailthru.date","article:modified_time","og:updated_time","modifieddate"];for(const r of e)if(t[r])return t[r];return null}(t.meta),a=o(i);if(a)return a;for(const e of t.time){const t=o(e.datetime||e.text);if(t)return t}const c=r(e);return o(c["last-modified"])}(s,t.headers):null}async function c(t,r={}){const n=await e(t,r.maxBytes,r);return n?a(n,"date"):null}import{fetchWeb as l}from"@isdk/web-fetcher";async function u(t,e={}){const{timeout:r=5e3,limit:n=20,testPath:s=""}=e;return(await Promise.all(t.map(async t=>{const e=Date.now();try{const n=s?(t.endsWith("/")?t.slice(0,-1):t)+(s.startsWith("/")?s:"/"+s):t;return await l(n,{timeoutMs:r}),{url:t,latency:Date.now()-e}}catch(t){return null}}))).filter(t=>null!==t).sort((t,e)=>t.latency-e.latency).slice(0,n)}import{FetcherOptions as f,FetchSession as d}from"@isdk/web-fetcher";import{addBaseFactoryAbility as h}from"custom-factory";import{isPlainObject as m}from"lodash-es";function p(t,e){if("string"==typeof t)return t.replace(/\$\{(.*?)\}/g,(t,r)=>{const n=e[r.trim()];return void 0!==n?String(n):""});if(Array.isArray(t))return t.map(t=>p(t,e));if(m(t)){const r={};for(const n in t)Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(t,n)&&(r[n]=p(t[n],e));return r}return t}import{cloneDeep as w,defaultsDeep as y}from"lodash-es";var b=class extends d{static async search(t,e,r={}){const n=Array.isArray(t)?t:[t],s=r.limit||10,i=r.fillLimit??!0,o=[];for(let t=0;t<n.length;t++){const a=n[t];if(o.length>=s)break;const c=s-o.length,l={...r,limit:c},u=this.createObject(a,l);if(!u)throw new Error(`Search engine not found: ${a}`);try{const t=await u.search(e,l);for(const e of t)e.url&&!o.some(t=>t.url===e.url)&&o.push(e);if(o.length>=s)break;if(!1===i)break}catch(e){if(console.warn(`[WebSearcher] Engine '${a}' failed completely:`,e),t===n.length-1&&0===o.length)throw e}finally{await u.dispose()}}return o}get template(){return{}}get pagination(){}getTemplate(t,e){return w(this.template)}createContext(t=this.options){const{actions:e,...r}=this.template,n=y({},r,t);return r.engine&&"auto"!==r.engine||!t.engine||(n.engine=t.engine),super.createContext(n)}async search(t,e={}){const r=e.limit||10,n=[],s=new Set;let i=e.startPage||0;const o=this.pagination?.startValue??0,a=this.pagination?.increment??1,c=e.maxPages||this.pagination?.maxPages||10,l=this.constructor.name;let u;e.baseUrls&&(Array.isArray(e.baseUrls)?u=e.baseUrls:"object"==typeof e.baseUrls&&(u=e.baseUrls[l]||e.baseUrls[this.constructor.alias?.[0]])),u&&0!==u.length||(u=this.constructor.defaultBaseUrls);const f=u&&u.length>0;let d=0;f&&"number"==typeof this.constructor.currentInstanceIndex&&(d=this.constructor.currentInstanceIndex);let h=!1;for(;n.length<r;){let m=!1,w=null;const b=f?u.length:1;let g=0;for(;g<b;){const c=f?u[d]:void 0,b=this.formatOptions(e),k=o+i*a,$={...e,...b,query:t,page:i+o,offset:k,limit:r,baseUrl:c?.endsWith("/")?c.slice(0,-1):c},A=p(this.getTemplate($,e),$),{actions:q,...x}=e,v=y({},A,x),D=[],T=v.actions||[];if(i===(e.startPage||0)||"url-param"===this.pagination?.type){if(v.url){T.some(t=>"goto"===(t.id??t.name??t.action)&&t.params?.url===v.url)||D.push({id:"goto",params:{url:v.url}})}}else"click-next"===this.pagination?.type&&this.pagination.nextButtonSelector&&(D.push({id:"click",params:{selector:this.pagination.nextButtonSelector}}),D.push({id:"waitFor",params:{networkIdle:!0,ms:500}}));D.push(...T),v.engine&&this.context.engine!==v.engine&&v.engine;try{const{outputs:r}=await this.executeAll(D,e),o={...e,query:t,page:i,baseUrl:c,engine:l};let a=await this.transform(r,o);e.transform&&(a=await e.transform(a,o));let u=!0;if(this.validateFetchResult&&(u=await this.validateFetchResult(a,o)),u&&e.validator&&(u=await e.validator(a,o)),!u)throw new Error(`Results validation failed for engine: ${l}, url: ${c}`);if(a&&0!==a.length)for(const t of a)t.url&&!s.has(t.url)&&(s.add(t.url),n.push(t));else h=!0;m=!0;break}catch(t){w=t,f&&(d=(d+1)%u.length,this.constructor.currentInstanceIndex=d),g++}}if(!m)throw w||new Error(`All instances failed for engine: ${l}`);if(h)break;if(n.length>=r||!this.pagination)break;if(i++,i>=c)break}return n.slice(0,r)}async validateFetchResult(t,e){return!0}async transform(t,e){return t.results||[]}formatOptions(t){return{...t}}};b._isFactory=!1,h(b),b.prototype.name="Searcher";var g=class extends b{get template(){return{engine:"browser",browser:{headless:!1},url:"https://www.google.com/search?q=${query}&start=${offset}&tbs=${tbs}&tbm=${tbm}&gl=${gl}&hl=${hl}&safe=${safe}",actions:[{id:"extract",storeAs:"results",params:{type:"array",selector:"#main #search",items:{url:{selector:"a:has(h3)",attribute:"href",required:!0},title:{selector:"a:has(h3) h3",required:!0,mode:"innerText"},snippet:{selector:"div[style*='-webkit-line-clamp']",type:"html"}}}}]}}get pagination(){return{type:"url-param",paramName:"start",startValue:0,increment:10}}formatOptions(t){const e={};if(t.timeRange)if("string"==typeof t.timeRange){const r={hour:"qdr:h",day:"qdr:d",week:"qdr:w",month:"qdr:m",year:"qdr:y"};r[t.timeRange]&&(e.tbs=r[t.timeRange])}else{const r=new Date(t.timeRange.from),n=t.timeRange.to?new Date(t.timeRange.to):new Date;if(!isNaN(r.getTime())&&!isNaN(n.getTime())){const t=t=>`${t.getMonth()+1}/${t.getDate()}/${t.getFullYear()}`;e.tbs=`cdr:1,cd_min:${t(r)},cd_max:${t(n)}`}}if(t.category){const r={images:"isch",videos:"vid",news:"nws"};r[t.category]&&(e.tbm=r[t.category])}return t.region&&(e.gl=t.region),t.language&&(e.hl=t.language),t.safeSearch&&("strict"===t.safeSearch?e.safe="active":"off"===t.safeSearch&&(e.safe="images")),e}async transform(t){const e=t.results||[];return Array.isArray(e)?e.map(t=>{if(t.url&&t.url.startsWith("/url?q="))try{const e=new URL(t.url,"https://www.google.com").searchParams.get("q");e&&(t.url=e)}catch(t){}return t}):[]}};g.alias=["google"];export{f as FetcherOptions,g as GoogleSearcher,b as WebSearcher,c as extractDate,a as extractMetadataFrom,t as fetchHeaders,e as fetchPartial,o as normalizeDate,r as parseHeaders,n as parseHtml,u as testUrlsByLatency};
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