Yandex Search API Client

A Python client for interacting with Yandex's Search API, providing easy access to Yandex search results programmatically.

Features

• Perform searches using Yandex's Search API
• Retrieve search results in XML format
• Extract URLs from search results
• Automatic IAM token management
• Configurable search parameters (region, search type, number of results)
• Asynchronous operation with timeout handling

Installation

pip install yandex-search-api

Usage

Basic Example

import logging
from yandex_search_api import YandexSearchAPIClient
from yandex_search_api.client import SearchType


def main():
    # Initialize client with your credentials
    client = YandexSearchAPIClient(
        folder_id="your_folder_id",
        oauth_token="your_oauth_token"
    )
    # How to get folder_id: https://yandex.cloud/en-ru/docs/resource-manager/operations/folder/get-id
    # How to get  oauth_token:  https://yandex.cloud/en-ru/docs/iam/concepts/authorization/oauth-token

    links = client.get_links(
        query_text="Python library for yandex search",
        search_type=SearchType.RUSSIAN,
        n_links=5
    )
    
    print("Search results:", links)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Advanced Usage

# Perform a search and get raw XML results
operation_id = client.search(
    query_text="Advanced search example",
    search_type=SearchType.INTERNATIONAL,
    region=Region.UKRAINE,
    n_links=20
)

# Wait for results and get XML
xml_results = client.get_search_results(operation_id)

# Or use the convenience method that waits automatically
xml_results = client.search_and_wait(
    query_text="Another example",
    max_wait=120,  # seconds
    interval=5     # seconds between checks
)

Configuration

Required Credentials

1. Folder ID: Your Yandex Cloud folder ID https://yandex.cloud/en-ru/docs/resource-manager/operations/folder/get-id
2. OAuth Token: Your Yandex OAuth token https://yandex.cloud/en-ru/docs/iam/concepts/authorization/oauth-token

Search Parameters

• search_type:

  • SearchType.RUSSIAN (default)
  • SearchType.TURKISH
  • SearchType.INTERNATIONAL

• region:

  • Region.RUSSIA (default)
  • Region.UKRAINE
  • Region.BELARUS
  • Region.KAZAKHSTAN

• n_links: Number of results to return (default: 10)

• page: Page number (default: 0)

• max_wait: Maximum time to wait for results in seconds (default: 300)

• interval: Time between operation status checks in seconds (default: 1)

Logging

The library uses Python's logging module with logger name YandexSearchApi. Configure logging as needed:

import logging
logging.getLogger('YandexSearchApi').setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

License

MIT License

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.