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Create Wolfram Notebook from WEB API JSON data
by Daniel Carvalho

I usually use DuckDuckGo search engine WEB API because it do not required key or any sort of logging, and it has good information about websites and so on...

With Import function we can do the WEB API call and get the message as Wolfram language associations

Just to check info, we can plot the text from related topics, according the JSON message data structured provided by DuckDuckGo web service

In[]:=

ddg=Import["https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=Nicola+Tesla&format=json","RawJSON"];

Framed[#["Text"]]&/@ddg["RelatedTopics"]//Column

Out[]=

Nikola Tesla Category

Charles Proteus Steinmetz – a contemporaneous electrical pioneer in alternating current and high voltage research.

Michael Faraday - Michael Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.

Atmospheric electricity - Atmospheric electricity is the study of electrical charges in the Earth's atmosphere. The movement of charge between the Earth's surface, the atmosphere, and the ionosphere is known as the global atmospheric electrical circuit.

Nikola Tesla in popular culture - Nikola Tesla is portrayed in many forms of popular culture. The Serbian-American engineer has particularly been depicted in science fiction, a genre which is well suited to address his inventions; while often exaggerated, the fictionalized variants build mostly upon his own alleged claims or ideas.

Austro-Hungarian inventors

Serbian inventors

People of the Military Frontier

Austro-Hungarian engineers

Graz University of Technology alumni

Great Officers of the Order of St. Sava

Serbian engineers

American futurologists

Serbian scientists

Wireless energy transfer

Recipients of the Order of the Yugoslav Crown

Grand Crosses of the Order of St. Sava

Mental calculators

Austro-Hungarian Serbs

Google Doodles

People associated with electricity

Serbian emigrants to the United States

19th-century American engineers

Grand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion

American eugenicists

Radio pioneers

IEEE Edison Medal recipients

Habsburg Serbs

American humanists

Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

19th-century Serbian people

20th-century Serbian people

Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States

Serbs of Croatia

American mechanical engineers

We can inspect the DuckDuckGo message data with a dataset:

Dataset[ddg]

Out[]=

Abstract	Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices.
AbstractSource	Wikipedia
AbstractText	Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices.
AbstractURL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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ImageHeight	200
ImageIsLogo	0
ImageWidth	149
Infobox	 … 2 
Redirect
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Type	A
rows 1–20 of 21

This is a function to parse DuckDuckGo message and create a notebook and highlights some details such as abstract, image and related links (and make it clickable):

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ddgQuery[query_String]:=Module[{ddgMessage=Import["https://api.duckduckgo.com/?format=json&q="<>URLEncode[query],"RawJSON"]},CellPrint[Flatten@{TextCell[ddgMessage["Heading"],"Section"],TextCell[ddgMessage["Abstract"],"Text"],TextCell[Import["https://www.duckduckgo.com/"<>ddgMessage["Image"]],"Text"],TextCell[Row[{#["Text"]," ",Hyperlink["»",#["FirstURL"]]}],"Item"]&/@ddgMessage["RelatedTopics"]}]]

Now test the function searching for Nicola Tesla info.
Any hint to make it better will be appreciated! :-)

In[]:=

ddgQuery["Nicola Tesla"]

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices.

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