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Search Engine Referrer info in request

Author:
zenx
Posted:
December 10, 2008
Language:
Python
Version:
1.0
Score:
2 (after 2 ratings)

This is exacly the same snippet as #197 http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/197/ but returning search enigne, search engine domain and search term in: request.search_referrer_engine request.search_referrer_domain request.search_referrer_term

I wanted to show ads only to people comming from search engines so I took snippet #197 and modify it to put that info in the request object.

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import urlparse
import cgi
import re

class SearchEngineReferrerMiddleware(object):
    """
    This is exacly the same as snippet #197 http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/197/
    but returning search enigne, search engine domain and search term in:
    request.search_referrer_engine
    request.search_referrer_domain
    request.search_referrer_term

    Usage example:
    ==============
    Show ads only to visitors coming from a searh engine
    
    {% if request.search_referrer_engine %}
        html for ads...
    {% endif %}
    """
    SEARCH_PARAMS = {
        'AltaVista': 'q',
        'Ask': 'q',
        'Google': 'q',
        'Live': 'q',
        'Lycos': 'query',
        'MSN': 'q',
        'Yahoo': 'p',
        'Cuil': 'q',
    }

    NETWORK_RE = r"""^
        (?P<subdomain>[-.a-z\d]+\.)?
        (?P<engine>%s)
        (?P<top_level>(?:\.[a-z]{2,3}){1,2})
        (?P<port>:\d+)?
        $(?ix)"""
    
    @classmethod
    def parse_search(cls, url):
        
        """
        Extract the search engine, domain, and search term from `url`
        and return them as (engine, domain, term). For example,
        ('Google', 'www.google.co.uk', 'django framework'). Note that
        the search term will be converted to lowercase and have normalized
        spaces.

        The first tuple item will be None if the referrer is not a
        search engine.
        """
        try:
            parsed = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
            network = parsed[1]
            query = parsed[3]
        except (AttributeError, IndexError):
            return (None, None, None)
        for engine, param in cls.SEARCH_PARAMS.iteritems():
            match = re.match(cls.NETWORK_RE % engine, network)
            if match and match.group(2):
                term = cgi.parse_qs(query).get(param)
                if term and term[0]:
                    term = ' '.join(term[0].split()).lower()
                    return (engine, network, term)
        return (None, network, None)
    
    
    def process_request(self, request):
        referrer = request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')
        engine, domain, term = self.parse_search(referrer)
        request.search_referrer_engine = engine
        request.search_referrer_domain = domain
        request.search_referrer_term = term
        

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Comments

alandelevie (on December 14, 2008):

Could you post a usage example?

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zenx (on December 22, 2008):

Simple example added.

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