append link to result in wolframalpha_api (and the tests to validate that)

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a01200356 2016-01-05 21:47:31 -06:00
parent 2a15944b58
commit 8ca5744814
3 changed files with 34 additions and 41 deletions

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@ -10,15 +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'
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
@ -60,6 +63,15 @@ def response(resp):
results.append({'answer': answer})
# TODO: append a result with title and link, like in the no api version
# 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 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