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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>
Markus Heiser 5 years ago
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      searx/engines/bing_videos.py

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searx/engines/bing_videos.py

@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ def request(query, params):
     if params['time_range'] in time_range_dict:
         params['url'] += time_range_string.format(interval=time_range_dict[params['time_range']])
 
+    # bing videos did not like "older" versions < 70.0.1 when selectin other
+    # languages then 'en' .. very strange ?!?!
+    params['headers']['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:73.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/73.0.1'
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     return params