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Engines cannot retrieve results: piratebay (request exception): PirateBay changed URL #1229

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yurivict opened this issue Mar 10, 2018 · 2 comments

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@yurivict
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When some text is entered, and I click on General and Files several times, it shows this error:

Error! Engines cannot retrieve results.
piratebay (request exception)
Please, try again later or find another searx instance.

Version 0.14.0 on FreeBSD.
Default config.

@Pofilo
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Pofilo commented Mar 10, 2018

Actually, you don't even need to switch several times, going directly on Files shows the error (on searx.me.

Request done:
https://searx.me/?q=test&categories=files&language=en-US

And I get the error.

If you take a look at piratebay.py, the request is done on https://thepiratebay.se/ and this site is actually not available.

There is a https://piratebay.to/, I don't know if it is a scam, the new domain name or a backup one.

Anyway, researching on this url doesn't work so replacing the url on searx neither.

So the title of the issue is not good, this is a piratebay (engine) issue.

@yurivict yurivict changed the title Error when switching between General and Files Engines cannot retrieve results: piratebay (request exception): PirateBay changed URL Mar 10, 2018
@Plomging
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in searx/settings.yml, piratebay entry, delete "url: https://pirateproxy.red/"
in searx/engines/piratebay.py replace 'https://thepiratebay.se/' by 'https://thepiratebay.org/'
And it works

kvch added a commit to kvch/searx that referenced this issue May 21, 2018
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