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+import os
+import json
+import redis
+from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, status
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, UrlConstraints
+
+# --- Configuration ---
+# We connect to Redis. In Docker, the hostname is usually the service name 'redis'.
+REDIS_HOST = os.getenv("REDIS_HOST", "localhost")
+REDIS_PORT = int(os.getenv("REDIS_PORT", 6379))
+QUEUE_NAME = "arabic_crawling_queue"
+
+# --- Models ---
+class SearchPayload(BaseModel):
+    """
+    Input model matching your description.
+    """
+    keyword: str = Field(..., description="The search keyword used")
+    results: list[str] = Field(..., description="List of URLs to process")
+
+# --- App & Redis Setup ---
+app = FastAPI(title="Arabic Search Ingestion API")
+
+# Initialize Redis connection
+try:
+    redis_client = redis.Redis(
+        host=REDIS_HOST, 
+        port=REDIS_PORT, 
+        db=0, 
+        decode_responses=True # Automatically decode bytes to str
+    )
+    # Test connection on startup
+    redis_client.ping()
+    print(f"Connected to Redis at {REDIS_HOST}:{REDIS_PORT}")
+except Exception as e:
+    print(f"Could not connect to Redis: {e}")
+    redis_client = None
+
+# --- Endpoints ---
+
+@app.get("/")
+def health_check():
+    """Simple health check"""
+    return {"status": "running", "redis_connected": redis_client is not None}
+
+@app.post("/api/ingest", status_code=status.HTTP_202_ACCEPTED)
+def ingest_search_data(payload: SearchPayload):
+    """
+    Receives keywords + 10 URLs, validates them, 
+    and pushes them to the background queue.
+    """
+    if not redis_client:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Queue service unavailable")
+
+    # 1. Validate (Pydantic handles basic validation)
+    
+    # 2. Prepare the job payload for the worker
+    # We structure it as a dictionary
+    job_data = {
+        "keyword": payload.keyword,
+        "urls": payload.results,
+        "count": len(payload.results)
+    }
+
+    # 3. Push to Redis Queue (LPUSH pushes to the left, so workers RPOP from right - FIFO logic)
+    try:
+        # We convert dict to JSON string
+        redis_client.lpush(QUEUE_NAME, json.dumps(job_data))
+        
+        return {
+            "message": "Success. Job queued for processing.",
+            "keyword": payload.keyword,
+            "queued_urls": len(payload.results)
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=f"Failed to queue job: {str(e)}")