# WolframAlpha (Maths) # # @website http://www.wolframalpha.com/ # # @using-api no # @results HTML # @stable no # @parse answer from re import search from json import loads from urllib import urlencode # search-url url = 'http://www.wolframalpha.com/' search_url = url+'input/?{query}' # do search-request def request(query, params): params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'i': query})) return params # get response from search-request def response(resp): results = [] webpage = resp.text line = None # the answer is inside a js function # answer can be located in different 'pods', although by default it should be in pod_0200 possible_locations = ['pod_0200\.push(.*)\n', 'pod_0100\.push(.*)\n'] # get line that matches the pattern for pattern in possible_locations: try: line = search(pattern, webpage).group(1) break except AttributeError: continue if not line: return results # extract answer from json answer = line[line.find('{'):line.rfind('}')+1] answer = loads(answer.encode('unicode-escape')) answer = answer['stringified'].decode('unicode-escape') results.append({'answer': answer}) return results