from util import hook, http from random import choice @hook.api_key('yahoo') @hook.command def answer(inp, api_key=None): ".answer -- find the answer to a question on Yahoo! Answers" url = "http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch" result = http.get_json(url, query=inp, search_in="question", output="json", appid=api_key) questions = result.get("all", {}).get("questions", []) answered = filter(lambda x: x.get("ChosenAnswer", ""), questions) if not answered: return "no results" chosen = choice(answered) answer, link = chosen["ChosenAnswer"], chosen["Link"] response = "%s -- %s" % (answer, link) return " ".join(response.split())