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Simple Wolfram Alpha queries from the Mac terminal. The XML parsing is incredibly basic (it just looks complicated because of the work needed to indent the lines to make it look good) so I haven't really tested it with any other results yet.
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| url="http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query" | |
| appid="YOUR APP ID" # get one at https://developer.wolframalpha.com/portal/apisignup.html | |
| query="$@" | |
| value="$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$query")" | |
| echo "Computing: $query" | |
| curl -s -L -G -d "input=$value&appid=$appid&format=plaintext" $url >/tmp/wolfram-alpha.xml | |
| xsltproc ~/Scripts/wolf.xslt /tmp/wolfram-alpha.xml | |
| rm /tmp/wolfram-alpha.xml |
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| >: wolf.sh "today" | |
| RESULT (Success: true) | |
| ========================================== | |
| Input interpretation | |
| today | |
| Result | |
| Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | |
| Date formats | |
| 04/24/2013 (month/day/year) | |
| Time in 2013 | |
| 114th day | |
| 17th week | |
| Observances for April 24 (United States) | |
| (no official holidays or major observances) | |
| (observances for the day include: Administrative Professionals' Day, ...) | |
| Anniversaries for April 24, 2013 | |
| birth of Lance Thomas (1988- ): 25th anniversary | |
| birth of Jermaine Cunningham (1988- ): 25th anniversary | |
| President Kennedy accepts responsibility for Bay of Pigs invasion (1961): 52nd anniversary | |
| Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries French heir Francis II (1558): 455th anniversary | |
| Discovery blasts off with Hubble Space Telescope (1990): 23rd anniversary | |
| Daylight information for April 24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| sunrise | 6:11 am EDT (12 hours 24 minutes ago) | |
| sunset | 7:50 pm EDT (1 hour 15 minutes from now) | |
| duration of daylight | 13 hours 39 minutes | |
| Phase of the Moon | |
| waxing gibbous moon |
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| <?xml version='1.0'?> | |
| <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> | |
| <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no"/> | |
| <xsl:output method="text"/> | |
| <xsl:variable name="indent" select="'
    '" /> | |
| <xsl:template match="/"> | |
| <xsl:apply-templates select="//queryresult"/> | |
| </xsl:template> | |
| <xsl:template match="queryresult[@success='true']"> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:text>RESULT (Success: </xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:value-of select="@success"/> | |
| <xsl:text>)</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:text>==========================================</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:for-each select="pod"> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| <xsl:value-of select="@title" /> | |
| <xsl:for-each select=".//plaintext"> | |
| <xsl:value-of select="$indent" /> | |
| <xsl:call-template name="insertBreaks"> | |
| <xsl:with-param name="pText" select="text()" /> | |
| </xsl:call-template> | |
| </xsl:for-each> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| </xsl:for-each> | |
| <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> | |
| </xsl:template> | |
| <xsl:template name="insertBreaks"> | |
| <xsl:param name="pText" select="."/> | |
| <xsl:choose> | |
| <xsl:when test="not(contains($pText, '
'))"> | |
| <xsl:copy-of select="$pText"/> | |
| </xsl:when> | |
| <xsl:otherwise> | |
| <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($pText, '
')"/> | |
| <xsl:value-of select="$indent" /> | |
| <xsl:call-template name="insertBreaks"> | |
| <xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, '
')"/> | |
| </xsl:call-template> | |
| </xsl:otherwise> | |
| </xsl:choose> | |
| </xsl:template> | |
| </xsl:stylesheet> |
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