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CloudBot/plugins/wikipedia.py

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"""Searches wikipedia and returns first sentence of article
Scaevolus 2009"""
import re
from util import hook, http, text
api_prefix = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
search_url = api_prefix + "?action=opensearch&format=xml"
paren_re = re.compile('\s*\(.*\)$')
@hook.command('w')
@hook.command
def wiki(inp):
"""wiki <phrase> -- Gets first sentence of Wikipedia article on <phrase>."""
x = http.get_xml(search_url, search=inp)
ns = '{http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2}'
items = x.findall(ns + 'Section/' + ns + 'Item')
if not 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
desc = text.truncate_str(desc, 200)
return '{} :: {}'.format(desc, http.quote(url, ':/'))