Refactoring code and separating code into files for better maintainability

src/bin/websurfx.rs

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ struct CliArgs {
 
 const PORT_RANGE: RangeInclusive<usize> = 1024..=65535;
 
+// A function to check whether port is valid u32 number or is in range
+// between [1024-65536] otherwise display an appropriate error message.
 fn is_port_in_range(s: &str) -> Result<u16, String> {
     let port: usize = s
         .parse()
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ fn is_port_in_range(s: &str) -> Result<u16, String> {
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     let args = CliArgs::parse();
 
+    // Initializing logging middleware with level set to default or info.
     env_logger::Builder::from_env(Env::default().default_filter_or("info")).init();
 
     log::info!("started server on port {}", args.port);
@@ -54,7 +57,7 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     HttpServer::new(move || {
         App::new()
             .app_data(handlebars_ref.clone())
-            .wrap(Logger::default())
+            .wrap(Logger::default()) // added logging middleware for logging.
             // Serve images and static files (css and js files).
             .service(fs::Files::new("/static", "./public/static").show_files_listing())
             .service(fs::Files::new("/images", "./public/images").show_files_listing())

src/engines/duckduckgo.rs

@@ -48,37 +48,18 @@ pub async fn results(
     let result_url: Selector = Selector::parse(".result__url")?;
     let result_desc: Selector = Selector::parse(".result__snippet")?;
 
-    let mut search_results: HashMap<String, RawSearchResult> = HashMap::new();
-
     // scrape all the results from the html
-    for result in document.select(&results) {
+    Ok(document
-        let search_result: RawSearchResult = RawSearchResult {
+        .select(&results)
-            title: result
+        .map(|result| {
+            RawSearchResult::new(
+                result
                     .select(&result_title)
                     .next()
                     .unwrap()
                     .inner_html()
                     .trim()
                     .to_string(),
-            visiting_url: format!(
-                "https://{}",
-                result
-                    .select(&result_url)
-                    .next()
-                    .unwrap()
-                    .inner_html()
-                    .trim()
-            ),
-            description: result
-                .select(&result_desc)
-                .next()
-                .unwrap()
-                .inner_html()
-                .trim()
-                .to_string(),
-            engine: vec!["duckduckgo".to_string()],
-        };
-        search_results.insert(
                 format!(
                     "https://{}",
                     result
@@ -88,9 +69,16 @@ pub async fn results(
                         .inner_html()
                         .trim()
                 ),
-            search_result,
+                result
-        );
+                    .select(&result_desc)
-    }
+                    .next()
-
+                    .unwrap()
-    Ok(search_results)
+                    .inner_html()
+                    .trim()
+                    .to_string(),
+                vec!["duckduckgo".to_string()],
+            )
+        })
+        .map(|search_result| (search_result.visiting_url.clone(), search_result))
+        .collect())
 }

src/engines/searx.rs

@@ -43,36 +43,18 @@ pub async fn results(
     let result_url: Selector = Selector::parse("h3>a")?;
     let result_desc: Selector = Selector::parse(".content")?;
 
-    let mut search_results: HashMap<String, RawSearchResult> = HashMap::new();
-
     // scrape all the results from the html
-    for result in document.select(&results) {
+    Ok(document
-        let search_result: RawSearchResult = RawSearchResult {
+        .select(&results)
-            title: result
+        .map(|result| {
+            RawSearchResult::new(
+                result
                     .select(&result_title)
                     .next()
                     .unwrap()
                     .inner_html()
                     .trim()
                     .to_string(),
-            visiting_url: result
-                .select(&result_url)
-                .next()
-                .unwrap()
-                .value()
-                .attr("href")
-                .unwrap()
-                .to_string(),
-            description: result
-                .select(&result_desc)
-                .next()
-                .unwrap()
-                .inner_html()
-                .trim()
-                .to_string(),
-            engine: vec!["searx".to_string()],
-        };
-        search_results.insert(
                 result
                     .select(&result_url)
                     .next()
@@ -81,9 +63,16 @@ pub async fn results(
                     .attr("href")
                     .unwrap()
                     .to_string(),
-            search_result,
+                result
-        );
+                    .select(&result_desc)
-    }
+                    .next()
-
+                    .unwrap()
-    Ok(search_results)
+                    .inner_html()
+                    .trim()
+                    .to_string(),
+                vec!["searx".to_string()],
+            )
+        })
+        .map(|search_result| (search_result.visiting_url.clone(), search_result))
+        .collect())
 }

src/search_results_handler/aggregation_models.rs

@@ -10,6 +10,24 @@ pub struct SearchResult {
     pub engine: Vec<String>,
 }
 
+impl SearchResult {
+    pub fn new(
+        title: String,
+        visiting_url: String,
+        url: String,
+        description: String,
+        engine: Vec<String>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        SearchResult {
+            title,
+            visiting_url,
+            url,
+            description,
+            engine,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct RawSearchResult {
     pub title: String,
     pub visiting_url: String,
@@ -17,9 +35,37 @@ pub struct RawSearchResult {
     pub engine: Vec<String>,
 }
 
+impl RawSearchResult {
+    pub fn new(
+        title: String,
+        visiting_url: String,
+        description: String,
+        engine: Vec<String>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        RawSearchResult {
+            title,
+            visiting_url,
+            description,
+            engine,
+        }
+    }
+    pub fn add_engines(&mut self, engine: String) {
+        self.engine.push(engine)
+    }
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct SearchResults {
     pub results: Vec<SearchResult>,
     pub page_query: String,
 }
+
+impl SearchResults {
+    pub fn new(results: Vec<SearchResult>, page_query: String) -> Self {
+        SearchResults {
+            results,
+            page_query,
+        }
+    }
+}

src/search_results_handler/aggregator.rs

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 
-use fake_useragent::{Browsers, UserAgentsBuilder};
+use super::{
+    aggregation_models::{RawSearchResult, SearchResult, SearchResults},
+    user_agent::random_user_agent,
+};
 
-use super::aggregation_models::{RawSearchResult, SearchResult, SearchResults};
 use crate::engines::{duckduckgo, searx};
 
 // A function that aggregates all the scraped results from the above upstream engines and
@@ -20,23 +22,7 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
     query: &str,
     page: Option<u32>,
 ) -> Result<SearchResults, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-    // Generate random user agent to improve privacy of the user.
+    let user_agent: String = random_user_agent();
-    let user_agent: String = UserAgentsBuilder::new()
-        .cache(false)
-        .dir("/tmp")
-        .thread(1)
-        .set_browsers(
-            Browsers::new()
-                .set_chrome()
-                .set_safari()
-                .set_edge()
-                .set_firefox()
-                .set_mozilla(),
-        )
-        .build()
-        .random()
-        .to_string();
-
     let mut result_map: HashMap<String, RawSearchResult> = HashMap::new();
 
     let ddg_map_results: HashMap<String, RawSearchResult> =
@@ -46,32 +32,35 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
 
     result_map.extend(ddg_map_results);
 
-    for (key, value) in searx_map_results.into_iter() {
+    searx_map_results.into_iter().for_each(|(key, value)| {
-        if result_map.contains_key(&key) {
         result_map
-                .get_mut(&key)
+            .entry(key)
-                .unwrap()
+            .and_modify(|result| {
-                .engine
+                result.add_engines(value.engine[0].clone());
-                .push(value.engine.get(0).unwrap().to_string())
-        } else {
-            result_map.insert(key, value);
-        }
-    }
-
-    let mut search_results: Vec<SearchResult> = Vec::new();
-
-    for (key, value) in result_map.into_iter() {
-        search_results.push(SearchResult {
-            title: value.title,
-            visiting_url: value.visiting_url,
-            url: key,
-            description: value.description,
-            engine: value.engine,
             })
-    }
+            .or_insert_with(|| -> RawSearchResult {
+                RawSearchResult::new(
+                    value.title.clone(),
+                    value.visiting_url.clone(),
+                    value.description.clone(),
+                    value.engine.clone(),
+                )
+            });
+    });
 
-    Ok(SearchResults {
+    Ok(SearchResults::new(
-        results: search_results,
+        result_map
-        page_query: query.to_string(),
+            .into_iter()
+            .map(|(key, value)| {
+                SearchResult::new(
+                    value.title,
+                    value.visiting_url,
+                    key,
+                    value.description,
+                    value.engine,
+                )
             })
+            .collect(),
+        query.to_string(),
+    ))
 }

src/search_results_handler/mod.rs

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 pub mod aggregation_models;
 pub mod aggregator;
+pub mod user_agent;

src/search_results_handler/user_agent.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+use fake_useragent::{Browsers, UserAgentsBuilder};
+
+// A function to generate random user agent to improve privacy of the user.
+pub fn random_user_agent() -> String {
+    UserAgentsBuilder::new()
+        .cache(false)
+        .dir("/tmp")
+        .thread(1)
+        .set_browsers(
+            Browsers::new()
+                .set_chrome()
+                .set_safari()
+                .set_edge()
+                .set_firefox()
+                .set_mozilla(),
+        )
+        .build()
+        .random()
+        .to_string()
+}