Searx image-searches disrupted by Google, Bing, 500px etc

[PFCS1976]

Failed searches and messages such as this - "google images (unexpected crash: No JSON object could be decoded), 500px (unexpected crash: 'photos')" - are happening to me constantly on every searx instance I visit (this has been going on for days)

[ghost]

Same here. I find it quite annoying :/

[dagaz]

Also same here.
(Searx running as a docker container build directly from sources.)

[sven222]

Same here, running on Debian 9 with nginx, latest master branch

[bourrel]

Unfortunately 500px shut down its API. IMO the best solution for the moment is to deactivate 500px (maybe set it deactivated by default ?) from the engines and wait till a solution is found.

I can't reproduce the google images crash neither on searx.me nor in my personnal instance. Are you sure the instances you use are up-to-date ?

[r1bnc]

0.14.0 I confirm that: Engines cannot retrieve results:
google images (unexpected crash: No JSON object could be decoded)

[Failure404]

Same here:
google images (unexpected crash: No JSON object could be decoded)

[asciimoo]

Update to the latest master, google images is fixed on the master branch. Also, I'll release a new version (0.15.0) soon.

[asciimoo]

I've removed 500px, google/bing works fine on the latest master for me.

[Ryonez]

This is defiantly still an issue:

From the logs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 104, in search_one_request_safe
search_results = search_one_request(engine, query, request_params)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 87, in search_one_request
return engine.response(response)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/engines/www500px.py", line 56, in response
for result in response_json['photos']:
KeyError: 'photos'
ERROR:searx.search:engine google images : exception : No JSON object could be decoded

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 104, in search_one_request_safe
search_results = search_one_request(engine, query, request_params)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 87, in search_one_request
return engine.response(response)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/engines/google_images.py", line 69, in response
g_result = loads(resp.text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
ERROR:searx.search:engine 500px : exception : 'photos'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 104, in search_one_request_safe
search_results = search_one_request(engine, query, request_params)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 87, in search_one_request
return engine.response(response)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/engines/www500px.py", line 56, in response
for result in response_json['photos']:
KeyError: 'photos'
ERROR:searx.search:engine bing images : exception : expected string or buffer

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 104, in search_one_request_safe
search_results = search_one_request(engine, query, request_params)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/search.py", line 87, in search_one_request
return engine.response(response)
File "/usr/local/searx/searx/engines/bing_images.py", line 111, in response
thumb_json_data = loads(_quote_keys_regex.sub(r'\1"\2": \3', link.attrib.get('mad')))
TypeError: expected string or buffer
WARNING:searx.search:engine timeout: flickr

ERROR:searx.search:engine flickr : HTTP requests timeout(search duration : 3.29820203781 s, timeout: 3.0 s) : Timeout

Running the latest docker image from wonderfall/searx. It does appear the image is out of date by 6 months.