From b299386d3e67f49c1948e6e98d82b6d54d639dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:35:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] minor type hint issues (#5459)

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
---
 searx/extended_types.py           | 4 ++--
 searx/search/processors/online.py | 6 +++---
 searx/utils.py                    | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searx/extended_types.py b/searx/extended_types.py
index 059ad947e..1dbe4ea87 100644
--- a/searx/extended_types.py
+++ b/searx/extended_types.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import httpx
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
     import searx.preferences
     import searx.results
-    from searx.search.processors import ParamTypes
+    from searx.search.processors import OnlineParamTypes
 
 
 class SXNG_Request(flask.Request):
@@ -83,4 +83,4 @@ class SXNG_Response(httpx.Response):
     """
 
     ok: bool
-    search_params: "ParamTypes"
+    search_params: "OnlineParamTypes"
diff --git a/searx/search/processors/online.py b/searx/search/processors/online.py
index 23bb7fda0..8592457d3 100644
--- a/searx/search/processors/online.py
+++ b/searx/search/processors/online.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class HTTPParams(t.TypedDict):
     headers: dict[str, str]
     """HTTP header information."""
 
-    data: dict[str, str]
+    data: dict[str, str | int | dict[str, str | int]]
     """Sending `form encoded data`_.
 
     .. _form encoded data:
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class HTTPParams(t.TypedDict):
        https://www.python-httpx.org/quickstart/#sending-json-encoded-data
     """
 
-    url: str
+    url: str | None
     """Requested url."""
 
     cookies: dict[str, str]
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ class OnlineProcessor(EngineProcessor):
                 request_args["content"] = params["content"]
 
         # send the request
-        response = req(params["url"], **request_args)
+        response = req(params["url"], **request_args)  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]
 
         # check soft limit of the redirect count
         if len(response.history) > soft_max_redirects:
diff --git a/searx/utils.py b/searx/utils.py
index 7e2f4d78f..3d7d6e715 100644
--- a/searx/utils.py
+++ b/searx/utils.py
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ def detect_language(text: str, threshold: float = 0.3, only_search_languages: bo
     return None
 
 
-def js_variable_to_python(js_variable: str) -> str:
+def js_variable_to_python(js_variable: str) -> t.Any:
     """Convert a javascript variable into JSON and then load the value
 
     It does not deal with all cases, but it is good enough for now.
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ def js_variable_to_python(js_variable: str) -> str:
     # replace the surogate character by colon
     s = s.replace(chr(1), ':')
     # load the JSON and return the result
-    return json.loads(s)  # pyright: ignore[reportAny]
+    return json.loads(s)
 
 
 def parse_duration_string(duration_str: str) -> timedelta | None: