#!/usr/bin/python3 import duckduckgo import urllib from bs4 import BeautifulSoup def xkcd(query): res = duckduckgo.get_zci("site:xkcd.com " + query) title = "" try: # ddg returns a url for these searches. i want a title as well title = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(res).read(), "html.parser").title.text except: pass # just swallow the error. maybe the result wasn't a url or something else bad happened return [(((title + " - ") if title else "") + res)] # never mind, blocked by ddg # def xkcd_links(query): # url = "https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=site%3Axkcd.com+" + query.replace(' ', '+') # soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url).read(), 'html.parser') # items = soup.find_all("a", class_="result__a") # print items # items = list(filter(lambda i: i[0:8] == 'xkcd.com', # [i.find(class_="result__title").text.strip() for i in items])) # print items # def pretty_link(item): # url = item.find(class_="result__url").text.strip() # title = item.find(class_="result__title").text.strip() # return (title + ' - ' + url) if title else url # # links = map(lambda url: pretty_link(url), items) # return links