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authorAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-01-19 17:02:14 +0100
committerAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-01-19 17:02:14 +0100
commitb5a3dfca60f23bac10ade068c40729f030bbad63 (patch)
treeda3142cd5f1c1d05b922be2d1e6aaaf029fa8d8d /searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
parent09b7673fbd271349b6878959bd2e1ae846981e13 (diff)
parent30bfbf2e07def8911d0b293e8032699812f43599 (diff)
Merge pull request #486 from a01200356/master
[enh] WolframAlpha no API engine (and tests for both)
Diffstat (limited to 'searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py')
-rw-r--r--searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py35
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
index d61d25747..303c6c165 100644
--- a/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
+++ b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
@@ -10,11 +10,18 @@
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'
-api_key = ''
+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
@@ -45,16 +52,26 @@ def response(resp):
search_results = etree.XML(resp.content)
# return empty array if there are no results
- if search_results.xpath('/queryresult[attribute::success="false"]'):
+ if search_results.xpath(failure_xpath):
return []
- # parse result
- result = search_results.xpath('//pod[attribute::primary="true"]/subpod/plaintext')[0].text
- result = replace_pua_chars(result)
+ # 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 result
- # TODO: shouldn't it bind the source too?
- results.append({'answer': result})
+ # 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
return results