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What does the get_question function do?
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What is the purpose of the re.sub(r'\s+', "+", q) expression in the get_question function?
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Study Notes
import re
from typing import List
from datetime import datetime
from collections import Counter
import math
## Import requests library
import requests
def get_question(q):
# Create URL with q parameter q=<question>
url = 'http://api.brainly.co/api/questions/v2/explore'
params = {
'page': 1,
'limit': 1,
'q': re.sub(r'\s+', "+", q)
}
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
try:
r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
response = r.json()
if len(response['data']) > 0:
return response['data']['title']
except Exception as e:
print("Error:", str(e))
return ""
def search(term, count=1):
query = term + "+site:" + "edu"
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
service_key = "YOUR_API_KEY" # Provide your API key here
startTime = datetime.now() # Get current timestamp
payload = {
'key': service_key,
'cx': '',
'q': query,
'num': count,
'starttime': int(startTime.timestamp())
}
headers = {
"Accept": "application/json; utf-8",
"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1",
"Accept-Language": "en",
}
try:
r = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
response = r.json()
if 'items' in response:
return response['items']
else:
raise AttributeError("Items not found")
except Exception as e:
print("Search error:", str(e))
return []
def search_quora(q):
url = 'http://api.brainly.co/questions/search/v3'
query = q + "+site:*+edu"
params = {
'page': 1,
'limit': 10,
'query': query
}
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
try:
r = requests.post(url, params=params, headers=headers)
response = r.json()
if 'data' in response:
return response['data']['items']
except Exception as e:
print("Quora error:", str(e))
return []
def top_quora_posts(posts, limit=10):
result_dict = {}
for post in posts:
title = post['name']
author = post['author']
votes = post['stats']['votes']
views = post['stats']['views']
last_activity = post['last_activity_date']
total_information = views + votes
result_dict[title] = [author, votes, total_information]
sorted_result_dict = dict(sorted(result_dict.items(), key=lambda item: item, reverse=True))
top_keys = list(sorted_result_dict.keys())[:limit]
top_values = [sorted_result_dict[key] for key in top_keys]
return top_values
def search(term, count=1):
query = term + "+site:*+edu"
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1"
service_key = "YOUR_API_KEY" # Provide your API key here
startTime = datetime.now() # Get current timestamp
payload = {
'key': service_key,
'cx': '',
'q': query,
'num': count,
'starttime': int(startTime.timestamp())
}
headers = {
"Accept": "application/json; utf-8",
"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1",
"Accept-Language": "en",
}
try:
r = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
response = r.json()
if 'items' in response:
return response['items']
else:
raise AttributeError("Items not found")
except Exception as e:
print("Search error:", str(e))
return []
def search_quora(q):
url = 'http://api.brainly.co/questions/search/v3'
query = q + "+site:*+edu"
params = {
'page': 1,
'limit': 10,
'query': query
}
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
try:
r = requests.post(url, params=params, headers=headers)
response = r.json()
if 'data' in response:
return response['data']['items']
except Exception as e:
print("Quora error:", str(e))
return []
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