# Wolfram Alpha (Maths) # # @website http://www.wolframalpha.com # @provide-api yes (http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/) # # @using-api yes # @results XML # @stable yes # @parse result from urllib import urlencode from lxml import etree from re import search # search-url base_url = 'http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query' search_url = base_url + '?appid={api_key}&{query}&format=plaintext' site_url = 'http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?{query}' api_key = '' # defined in settings.yml # xpath variables failure_xpath = '/queryresult[attribute::success="false"]' answer_xpath = '//pod[attribute::primary="true"]/subpod/plaintext' input_xpath = '//pod[starts-with(attribute::title, "Input")]/subpod/plaintext' # do search-request def request(query, params): params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'input': query}), api_key=api_key) return params # replace private user area characters to make text legible def replace_pua_chars(text): pua_chars = {u'\uf74c': 'd', u'\uf74d': u'\u212f', u'\uf74e': 'i', u'\uf7d9': '='} for k, v in pua_chars.iteritems(): text = text.replace(k, v) return text # get response from search-request def response(resp): results = [] search_results = etree.XML(resp.content) # return empty array if there are no results if search_results.xpath(failure_xpath): return [] # parse answers answers = search_results.xpath(answer_xpath) if answers: for answer in answers: answer = replace_pua_chars(answer.text) results.append({'answer': answer}) # if there's no input section in search_results, check if answer has the input embedded (before their "=" sign) try: query_input = search_results.xpath(input_xpath)[0].text except IndexError: query_input = search(u'([^\uf7d9]+)', answers[0].text).group(1) # append link to site result_url = site_url.format(query=urlencode({'i': query_input.encode('utf-8')})) results.append({'url': result_url, 'title': query_input + " - Wolfram|Alpha"}) return results