text: """
   General Files (Files)
  
   @website     http://www.general-files.org
   @provide-api no (nothing found)
  
   @using-api   no (because nothing found)
   @results     HTML (using search portal)
   @stable      no (HTML can change)
   @parse       url, title, content
  
   @todo        detect torrents?
  """
  
  from lxml import html
  
  # engine dependent config
  categories = ['files']
  paging = True
  
  # search-url
  base_url = 'http://www.general-file.com'
  search_url = base_url + '/files-{letter}/{query}/{pageno}'
  
  # specific xpath variables
  result_xpath = '//table[@class="block-file"]'
  title_xpath = './/h2/a//text()'
  url_xpath = './/h2/a/@href'
  content_xpath = './/p//text()'
  
  
  # do search-request
  def request(query, params):
  
      params['url'] = search_url.format(query=query,
                                        letter=query[0],
                                        pageno=params['pageno'])
  
      return params
  
  
  # get response from search-request
  def response(resp):
      results = []
  
      dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
  
      # parse results
      for result in dom.xpath(result_xpath):
          url = result.xpath(url_xpath)[0]
  
          # skip fast download links
          if not url.startswith('/'):
              continue
  
          # append result
          results.append({'url': base_url + url,
                          'title': ''.join(result.xpath(title_xpath)),
                          'content': ''.join(result.xpath(content_xpath))})
  
      # return results
      return results
  