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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
+from lxml import html
+from searx.engines.xpath import extract_text
+
+# 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
+
+
+# tries to find answer under the pattern given
+def extract_answer(script_list, pattern):
+    answer = None
+
+    # get line that matches the pattern
+    for script in script_list:
+        try:
+            line = re.search(pattern, script.text_content()).group(1)
+        except AttributeError:
+            continue
+
+        # extract answer from json
+        answer = line[line.find('{') : line.rfind('}')+1]
+        answer = json.loads(answer.encode('unicode-escape'))
+        answer = answer['stringified'].decode('unicode-escape')
+
+    return answer
+
+
+# get response from search-request
+def response(resp):
+
+    dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)
+
+    # the answer is inside a js script
+    scripts = dom.xpath('//script')
+
+    results = []
+
+    # answer can be located in different 'pods', although by default it should be in pod_0200
+    answer = extract_answer(scripts, 'pod_0200\.push(.*)\n')
+    if not answer:
+        answer = extract_answer(scripts, 'pod_0100\.push(.*)\n')
+        if answer:
+            results.append({'answer': answer})
+    else:
+        results.append({'answer': answer})
+    
+    return results