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-rw-r--r--searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py67
-rw-r--r--searx/search.py2
-rw-r--r--searx/settings.yml6
3 files changed, 74 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b9da87c8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# 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
+from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text
+from searx.utils import html_to_text
+
+# search-url
+base_url = 'http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query'
+search_url = base_url + '?appid={api_key}&{query}&format=plaintext'
+site_url = 'http://wolframalpha.com/input/?{query}'
+
+# do search-request
+def request(query, params):
+ params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'input': query}),
+ api_key=api_key)
+
+ # need this for url in response
+ global my_query
+ my_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('/queryresult[attribute::success="false"]'):
+ return []
+
+ # parse result
+ result = search_results.xpath('//pod[attribute::primary="true"]/subpod/plaintext')[0].text
+ result = replace_pua_chars(result)
+
+ # bind url from site
+ result_url = site_url.format(query=urlencode({'i': my_query}))
+
+ # append result
+ # TODO: shouldn't it bind the source too?
+ results.append({'url': result_url,
+ 'answer': result})
+
+ # return results
+ return results
diff --git a/searx/search.py b/searx/search.py
index 655b7808a..85d88b9d3 100644
--- a/searx/search.py
+++ b/searx/search.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def make_callback(engine_name, callback, params, result_container):
with threading.RLock():
engines[engine_name].stats['page_load_time'] += search_duration
- timeout_overhead = 0.2 # seconds
+ timeout_overhead = 0.5 # seconds
timeout_limit = engines[engine_name].timeout + timeout_overhead
if search_duration > timeout_limit:
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index c7f659e5f..1c8ba3f7f 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -300,6 +300,12 @@ engines:
engine : vimeo
shortcut : vm
+ - name : wolframalpha
+ shortcut : wa
+ engine : wolframalpha_api
+ api_key: '5952JX-X52L3VKWT8'
+ timeout: 6.0
+
#The blekko technology and team have joined IBM Watson! -> https://blekko.com/
# - name : blekko images
# engine : blekko_images