h/plugins/wikipedia.py

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#!/usr/bin/python
'''Searches wikipedia and returns first sentence of article
Scaevolus 2009'''
import urllib
from lxml import etree
import re
import hook
api_prefix = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
search_url = api_prefix + "?action=opensearch&search=%s&format=xml"
paren_re = re.compile('\s*\(.*\)$')
@hook.command(hook='w (.*)')
@hook.command
def wiki(query):
print query
q = search_url % (urllib.quote(query, safe=''))
print q
x = etree.parse(q)
ns = '{http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2}'
items = x.findall(ns + 'Section/' + ns + 'Item')
if items == []:
if x.find('error') is not None:
return 'error: %(code)s: %(info)s' % x.find('error').attrib
else:
return 'no results found'
def extract(item):
return [item.find(ns + x).text for x in
('Text', 'Description', 'Url')]
title, desc, url = extract(items[0])
if 'may refer to' in desc:
title, desc, url = extract(items[1])
title = paren_re.sub('', title)
if title.lower() not in desc.lower():
desc = title + desc
desc = re.sub('\s+', ' ', desc).strip() #remove excess spaces
if len(desc) > 300:
desc = desc[:300] + '...'
return '%s -- %s' % (desc, url)