Reuters

Reuters (news) is an international news agency.

Configuration

The engine has the following additional settings:

- name: reuters
  engine: reuters
  shortcut: reu
  sort_order: "relevance"

Implementations

searx.engines.reuters.sort_order = 'relevance'

Sort order, one of relevance, display_date:desc or display_data:asc.

searx.engines.reuters.resize_url(thumbnail: dict[str, str], width: int = 0, height: int = 0) → str[source]

Generates a URL for Reuter’s thumbnail with the dimensions width and height. If no URL can be generated from the thumbnail data, an empty string will be returned.

width: default is unset (0)

Image width in pixels (negative values are ignored). If only width is specified, the height matches the original aspect ratio.

height: default is unset (0)

Image height in pixels (negative values are ignored). If only height is specified, the width matches the original aspect ratio.

The file size of a full-size image is usually several MB; when reduced to a height of, for example, 80 points, only a few KB remain!

Fields of the thumbnail data (result.articles.[<int>].thumbnail):

thumbnail.url:

Is a full-size image (>MB).

thumbnail.width & .height:

Dimensions of the full-size image.

thumbnail.resizer_url:

Reuters has a resizer REST-API for the images, this is the URL of the service. This URL includes the &auth argument, other arguments are &width=<int> and &height=<int>.