# 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 # 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}' search_query = '' api_key = '' # xpath variables failure_xpath = '/queryresult[attribute::success="false"]' answer_xpath = '//pod[attribute::primary="true"]/subpod/plaintext' # do search-request def request(query, params): params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'input': query}), api_key=api_key) # used in response global search_query search_query = query 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 answer answer = search_results.xpath(answer_xpath) if answer: answer = replace_pua_chars(answer[0].text) results.append({'answer': answer}) # result url result_url = site_url.format(query=urlencode({'i': search_query})) # append result results.append({'url': result_url, 'title': search_query + ' - Wolfram|Alpha'}) return results