Source code for bot.image_search

"""Image searching function
used to search and send random images to slack channel"""
import json
from random import randrange

import requests

from conf.config import KEY, USER
from bot.debug import print_debug


def search_image(input):
    """
    search_image function
    :param: input
    :return: result url """
    try:
        # search engine initialization
        searchTerm = "Futurama "+input
        startIndex = str(randrange(0, 25))
        key = KEY
        cx = USER
        searchUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q=" + \
                    searchTerm + "&start=" + startIndex + "&key=" + key + "&cx=" + cx + \
                    "&searchType=image"

        r = requests.get(searchUrl)
        response = r.content.decode('utf-8')
        result = json.loads(response)

        rand_index = randrange(0, 10)
        url = result["items"][rand_index]["link"]

        print_debug(url)
        return url

    except Exception as e:
        print(e)