Building the Wolfram Info System
Now that we have our generic InfoSys module in place, we can work on specific backends. We’ll start with only one, our Wolfram backend. This module will call WolframAlpha to retrieve relevant information about our users’ annotations.
We need an XML parser to handle WolframAlpha’s XML responses. Let’s add :sweet_xml to our deps list in mix.exs to take care of this:
| | {:sweet_xml, "~> 0.5.0"}, |
Next, run $ mix deps.get to grab the dependency from Hex. With our XML library in place, we’re ready to sign up as a WolframAlpha API developer and retrieve our application ID. Visit the WolframAlpha developer portal,[23] sign up for a new account, and follow the instructions to get ...
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