import json from urllib import urlencode url = 'http://api.duckduckgo.com/?{query}&format=json&pretty=0&no_redirect=1' def request(query, params): params['url'] = url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query})) return params def response(resp): search_res = json.loads(resp.text) results = [] if 'Definition' in search_res: if search_res.get('AbstractURL'): res = {'title' : search_res.get('Heading', '') ,'content' : search_res.get('Definition', '') ,'url' : search_res.get('AbstractURL', '') ,'class' : 'definition_result' } results.append(res) return results