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plugins/yahooanswers.py

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+from util import hook, web, text
+
+
+@hook.command
+def answer(inp):
+    ".answer <query> -- find the answer to a question on Yahoo! Answers"
+
+    query = "SELECT Subject, ChosenAnswer, Link FROM answers.search WHERE query=@query LIMIT 1"
+    result = web.query(query, {"query": inp.strip()}).one()
+
+    short_url = web.isgd(result["Link"])
+
+    # we split the answer and .join() it to remove newlines/extra spaces
+    answer = text.truncate_str(' '.join(result["ChosenAnswer"].split()), 80)
+
+    return u'\x02{}\x02 "{}" - {}'.format(result["Subject"], answer, short_url)