Update app.py

app.py

@@ -1,22 +1,9 @@
 import gradio as gr
 import requests
-from tenacity import retry, wait_exponential, stop_after_attempt, retry_if_exception_type
-import json
 
-# Define custom exceptions for clarity
-class RateLimitException(Exception):
-    pass
-
-# Retry configuration: Retry up to 5 times with exponential backoff
-@retry(
-    wait=wait_exponential(multiplier=1, min=4, max=10),
-    stop=stop_after_attempt(5),
-    retry=retry_if_exception_type(RateLimitException)
-)
 def search_searx(query, instance_url='https://searx.org', categories='general'):
     """
-    Perform a search using the Searx API with retry logic.
-
+    Perform a search using the Searx API.
     :param query: The search query string.
     :param instance_url: The URL of the Searx instance.
     :param categories: Categories to search in (e.g., 'general', 'images', 'videos').
@@ -33,39 +20,29 @@ def search_searx(query, instance_url='https://searx.org', categories='general'):
         'safesearch': '0'     # Safe search (0: off, 1: moderate, 2: strict)
     }
     
+    # Define a user agent
     headers = {
-        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) ' +
-                      'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ' +
-                      'Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
+        'User-Agent': 'SearxGradioApp/1.0 (https://github.com/yourusername/searx-gradio-app)'
     }
-
+    
     try:
         response = requests.get(search_endpoint, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=10)
-        if response.status_code == 429:
-            raise RateLimitException("Rate limit exceeded. Retrying...")
         response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an error for bad status codes
         data = response.json()
         
         if 'results' not in data or not data['results']:
             return "No results found."
-
+        
         formatted_results = ""
         for idx, result in enumerate(data['results'], start=1):
             title = result.get('title', 'No Title')
             url = result.get('url', 'No URL')
             snippet = result.get('content', 'No Description')
-            # Using Markdown link formatting
-            formatted_results += f"**{idx}. [{title}]({url})**\n{snippet}\n\n"
-
+            formatted_results += f"**{idx}. {title}**\n[{url}]({url})\n{snippet}\n\n"
+        
         return formatted_results
-
-    except RateLimitException as e:
-        # After retries, if still failing due to rate limits
-        return f"Rate limit exceeded. Please try again later.\nError: {e}"
     except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
         return f"An error occurred while searching: {e}"
-    except json.JSONDecodeError:
-        return "Failed to parse the response from the Searx instance."
 
 def create_gradio_interface():
     """
@@ -76,7 +53,6 @@ def create_gradio_interface():
         gr.Markdown(
             "This application allows you to perform private searches using the [Searx](https://searx.org/) metasearch engine."
         )
-
         with gr.Row():
             with gr.Column():
                 query = gr.Textbox(
@@ -97,26 +73,25 @@ def create_gradio_interface():
                     lines=1
                 )
                 search_button = gr.Button("Search")
-
             with gr.Column():
                 results = gr.Markdown("### Search Results will appear here...")
-
+        
         def perform_search(q, url, cats):
             return search_searx(q, instance_url=url, categories=cats)
-
+        
         search_button.click(
             perform_search,
             inputs=[query, instance_url, categories],
             outputs=results
         )
-
+        
         gr.Markdown(
             """
             ---
             **Note:** This application uses the Searx metasearch engine to fetch results from multiple sources while preserving your privacy.
             """
         )
-
+    
     return demo
 
 iface = create_gradio_interface()