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authorAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-03-01 10:41:56 +0100
committerAdam Tauber <asciimoo@gmail.com>2016-03-01 10:41:56 +0100
commit308613e586108fd7b713fc2a14f8200a0a781105 (patch)
tree9584ab403f132083c480ae206213672f8bd42e58 /searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py
parent45b5073f3e10cad68ddda6a1a83d3273a3d734fc (diff)
parent8f3b33de23090e6d11a5a29a239719bb6915d2ec (diff)
Merge pull request #513 from a01200356/wolframalpha
WolframAlpha infobox
Diffstat (limited to 'searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py')
-rw-r--r--searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py61
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py
index 639dccf24..59629b833 100644
--- a/searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py
+++ b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_noapi.py
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
-# WolframAlpha (Maths)
+# Wolfram|Alpha (Science)
#
-# @website http://www.wolframalpha.com/
-# @provide-api yes (http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/)
+# @website https://www.wolframalpha.com/
+# @provide-api yes (https://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/)
#
# @using-api no
-# @results HTML
+# @results JSON
# @stable no
-# @parse answer
+# @parse url, infobox
from cgi import escape
from json import loads
from time import time
from urllib import urlencode
+from lxml.etree import XML
from searx.poolrequests import get as http_get
# search-url
url = 'https://www.wolframalpha.com/'
-search_url = url + 'input/?{query}'
search_url = url + 'input/json.jsp'\
- '?async=true'\
+ '?async=false'\
'&banners=raw'\
'&debuggingdata=false'\
'&format=image,plaintext,imagemap,minput,moutput'\
@@ -33,13 +33,17 @@ search_url = url + 'input/json.jsp'\
'&sponsorcategories=true'\
'&statemethod=deploybutton'
-# xpath variables
-scripts_xpath = '//script'
-title_xpath = '//title'
-failure_xpath = '//p[attribute::class="pfail"]'
+referer_url = url + 'input/?{query}'
+
token = {'value': '',
'last_updated': None}
+# pods to display as image in infobox
+# this pods do return a plaintext, but they look better and are more useful as images
+image_pods = {'VisualRepresentation',
+ 'Illustration',
+ 'Symbol'}
+
# seems, wolframalpha resets its token in every hour
def obtain_token():
@@ -62,13 +66,15 @@ def request(query, params):
if time() - token['last_updated'] > 3600:
obtain_token()
params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'input': query}), token=token['value'])
- params['headers']['Referer'] = 'https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=' + query
+ params['headers']['Referer'] = referer_url.format(query=urlencode({'i': query}))
return params
# get response from search-request
def response(resp):
+ results = []
+
resp_json = loads(resp.text)
if not resp_json['queryresult']['success']:
@@ -76,20 +82,35 @@ def response(resp):
# TODO handle resp_json['queryresult']['assumptions']
result_chunks = []
+ infobox_title = None
for pod in resp_json['queryresult']['pods']:
+ pod_id = pod.get('id', '')
pod_title = pod.get('title', '')
+
if 'subpods' not in pod:
continue
+
+ if pod_id == 'Input' or not infobox_title:
+ infobox_title = pod['subpods'][0]['plaintext']
+
for subpod in pod['subpods']:
- if 'img' in subpod:
- result_chunks.append(u'<p>{0}<br /><img src="{1}" alt="{2}" /></p>'
- .format(escape(pod_title or subpod['img']['alt']),
- escape(subpod['img']['src']),
- escape(subpod['img']['alt'])))
+ if subpod['plaintext'] != '' and pod_id not in image_pods:
+ # append unless it's not an actual answer
+ if subpod['plaintext'] != '(requires interactivity)':
+ result_chunks.append({'label': pod_title, 'value': subpod['plaintext']})
+
+ elif 'img' in subpod:
+ result_chunks.append({'label': pod_title, 'image': subpod['img']})
if not result_chunks:
return []
- return [{'url': resp.request.headers['Referer'].decode('utf-8'),
- 'title': 'Wolframalpha',
- 'content': ''.join(result_chunks)}]
+ results.append({'infobox': infobox_title,
+ 'attributes': result_chunks,
+ 'urls': [{'title': 'Wolfram|Alpha', 'url': resp.request.headers['Referer'].decode('utf8')}]})
+
+ results.append({'url': resp.request.headers['Referer'].decode('utf8'),
+ 'title': 'Wolfram|Alpha',
+ 'content': infobox_title})
+
+ return results