import re
import urllib2
from lxml import html
from util import hook
@hook.command
@hook.command('wa')
def wolframalpha(inp):
".wa/.wolframalpha -- scrapes Wolfram Alpha's" \
"results for "
if not inp:
return wolframalpha.__help__
url = "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s&asynchronous=false"
h = html.parse(url % urllib2.quote(inp, safe=''))
pods = h.xpath("//div[@class='pod ']")
pod_texts = []
for pod in pods:
heading = pod.find('h1/span').text_content().strip()
results = []
for image in pod.xpath('div/div[@class="output"]/img'):
alt = image.attrib['alt'].strip()
alt = alt.replace('\\n', '; ')
alt = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', alt)
if alt:
results.append(alt)
if results:
pod_texts.append(heading + ' ' + '|'.join(results))
ret = '. '.join(pod_texts[1:]) # first pod is the input
if not ret:
if not pod_texts:
return 'no results'
ret = pod_texts[0] # definite integrals have only the result pod first
if len(ret) > 430:
ret = ret[:ret.rfind(' ', 0, 430)]
ret = re.sub(r'\W+$', '', ret) + '...'
if not ret:
return 'no result'
return ret