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