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<section id="module-searx.engines.chinaso">
<span id="chinaso"></span><span id="chinaso-engine"></span><h1>ChinaSo<a class="headerlink" href="#module-searx.engines.chinaso" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.chinaso.com/">ChinaSo</a>, a search engine for the chinese language area.</p>
<div class="admonition attention">
<p class="admonition-title">Attention</p>
<p>ChinaSo engine does not return real URL, the links from these search
engines violate the privacy of the users!!</p>
<p>We try to find a solution for this problem, please follow <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4694">issue #4694</a>.</p>
<p>As long as the problem has not been resolved, these engines are
not active in a standard setup (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">inactive:</span> <span class="pre">true</span></code>).</p>
</div>
<section id="configuration">
<h2>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The engine has the following additional settings:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_category" title="searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_category"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">chinaso_category</span></code></a> (<a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType" title="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ChinasoCategoryType</span></code></a>)</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source" title="searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">chinaso_news_source</span></code></a> (<a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType" title="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ChinasoNewsSourceType</span></code></a>)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>In the example below, all three ChinaSO engines are using the <a class="reference internal" href="../../../admin/settings/settings_engines.html#engine-network"><span class="std std-ref">network</span></a> from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">chinaso</span> <span class="pre">news</span></code> engine.</p>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso news</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">shortcut</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">categories</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="nv">news</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">chinaso_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">news</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">chinaso_news_source</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">all</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso images</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">network</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso news</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">shortcut</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinasoi</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">categories</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="nv">images</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">chinaso_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">images</span>
<span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso videos</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">network</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinaso news</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">shortcut</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">chinasov</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">categories</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">[</span><span class="nv">videos</span><span class="p p-Indicator">]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">chinaso_category</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">videos</span>
</pre></div>
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</section>
<section id="implementations">
<h2>Implementations<a class="headerlink" href="#implementations" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
</section>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.chinaso.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ChinasoCategoryType</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>ChinaSo supports news, videos, images search.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">news</span></code>: search for news</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">videos</span></code>: search for videos</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">images</span></code>: search for images</p></li>
</ul>
<p>In the category <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">news</span></code> you can additionally filter by option
<a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source" title="searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">chinaso_news_source</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>alias of <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Literal" title="(in Python v3.13)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Literal</span></code></a>[‘news’, ‘videos’, ‘images’]</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_category">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.chinaso.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">chinaso_category</span></span><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'news'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_category" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Configure ChinaSo category (<a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType" title="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoCategoryType"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ChinasoCategoryType</span></code></a>).</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.chinaso.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ChinasoNewsSourceType</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Filtering ChinaSo-News results by source:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CENTRAL</span></code>: central publication</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LOCAL</span></code>: local publication</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">BUSINESS</span></code>: business publication</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EPAPER</span></code>: E-Paper</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">all</span></code>: all sources</p></li>
</ul>
<p>alias of <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Literal" title="(in Python v3.13)"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Literal</span></code></a>[‘CENTRAL’, ‘LOCAL’, ‘BUSINESS’, ‘EPAPER’, ‘all’]</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="py data">
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source">
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">searx.engines.chinaso.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">chinaso_news_source</span></span><em class="property"><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Literal" title="(in Python v3.13)"><span class="pre">Literal</span></a><span class="p"><span class="pre">[</span></span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'CENTRAL'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'LOCAL'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'BUSINESS'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'EPAPER'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">,</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s"><span class="pre">'all'</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">]</span></span></em><em class="property"><span class="w"> </span><span class="p"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="pre">'all'</span></em><a class="headerlink" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.chinaso_news_source" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Configure ChinaSo-News type (<a class="reference internal" href="#searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType" title="searx.engines.chinaso.ChinasoNewsSourceType"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ChinasoNewsSourceType</span></code></a>).</p>
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