public ActionResult SearchResults(string searchTerm)
{
// validate input
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchTerm))
{
return(Json(false, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet));
}
_IndexSearchResultsPartialViewModel model = new _IndexSearchResultsPartialViewModel();
WebScraper webScraper = new WebScraper();
model.SearchResults = webScraper.GetSearchResults(searchTerm);
return(PartialView("_IndexSearchResultsPartial", model));
}
public ActionResult SearchResults(string searchTerm)
{
// validate input
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchTerm))
{
return(Json(false, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet));
}
_IndexSearchResultsPartialViewModel model = new _IndexSearchResultsPartialViewModel();
// Search engines are saved in Web.config with format of:
// searchEngineName;url;CSSSelector,searchEngineName;url;CSSSelector
List <string> searchEngines = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SearchEngines"].Split(',').ToList();
using (ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver())
{
foreach (string searchEngine in searchEngines)
{
List <string> searchParameters = searchEngine.Split(';').ToList();
string searchEngineName = searchParameters[0];
string url = searchParameters[1];
string cssSelector = searchParameters[2];
url += HttpUtility.UrlEncode(searchTerm.Trim());
var elements = GetSearchResultElements(searchEngineName, driver, url, By.CssSelector(cssSelector));
foreach (IWebElement element in elements)
{
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(element.Text))
{
//string resultURL = element.FindElement(By.CssSelector("a.result__a")).GetAttribute("href").ToString().Trim();
model.SearchResults.Add(new SearchResultModel {
SearchEngine = searchEngineName, ResultText = element.Text
}); //, ResultURL = resultURL
}
}
}
};
return(PartialView("_IndexSearchResultsPartial", model));
}
