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Improving Wolfram Alpha search hit content

Making WA search hits contain
- the (parsed) input inside the "title" instead of just "Wolfram|Alpha", to better match other hit titles and to confirm correct parsing of input to the user
- the first output field that contains any text (skipping ones that are only pictures; this is usually the most meaningful "result" field) instead of the raw input as the "content", making it additionally possible to obtain WA computations from JSON API calls
Lorenzo J. Lucchini 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 9 additions and 7 deletions
  1. 9 7
      searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py

+ 9 - 7
searx/engines/wolframalpha_api.py

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ 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::id, "Input")]/subpod/plaintext'
 pods_xpath = '//pod'
 subpods_xpath = './subpod'
@@ -76,11 +75,11 @@ def response(resp):
     try:
         infobox_title = search_results.xpath(input_xpath)[0].text
     except:
-        infobox_title = None
+        infobox_title = ""
 
     pods = search_results.xpath(pods_xpath)
-    result = ""
     result_chunks = []
+    result_content = ""
     for pod in pods:
         pod_id = pod.xpath(pod_id_xpath)[0]
         pod_title = pod.xpath(pod_title_xpath)[0]
@@ -97,8 +96,9 @@ def response(resp):
 
             if content and pod_id not in image_pods:
 
-                if pod_is_result:
-                    result = content
+                if pod_is_result or not result_content:
+                    if pod_id != "Input":
+                        result_content = "%s: %s" % (pod_title, content)
 
                 # if no input pod was found, title is first plaintext pod
                 if not infobox_title:
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ def response(resp):
     if not result_chunks:
         return []
 
+    title = "Wolfram|Alpha (%s)" % infobox_title
+
     # append infobox
     results.append({'infobox': infobox_title,
                     'attributes': result_chunks,
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ def response(resp):
 
     # append link to site
     results.append({'url': resp.request.headers['Referer'].decode('utf8'),
-                    'title': infobox_title + ' - Wolfram|Alpha',
-                    'content': result})
+                    'title': title,
+                    'content': result_content})
 
     return results