searxng/searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py
a01200356 d827fc49a1 Remove unnecessary code in wolframalpha_noapi engine
The answer is scraped from a js function, so parsing the html tree
doesn't achieve anything here.
2015-12-29 21:11:49 -06:00

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# WolframAlpha (Maths)
#
# @website http://www.wolframalpha.com/
#
# @using-api no
# @results HTML, JS
# @stable no
# @parse answer
import re
import json
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 = []
# 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 = re.search(pattern, resp.text).group(1)
break
except AttributeError:
continue
if not line:
return results
# extract answer from json
answer = line[line.find('{') : line.rfind('}')+1]
answer = json.loads(answer.encode('unicode-escape'))
answer = answer['stringified'].decode('unicode-escape')
results.append({'answer': answer})
return results