Basically, the goal is to have an api where a question is asked, and the computer should be able to respond to that question and answer it somewhat reliably.

When a query is sent to the server:

• Parse query
• Determine which plugin that is installed can handle the data
• If a plugin is found, let the plugin deal with that
• Otherwise, send to Wolphram Alpha and hope that an answer is received
• If WA failed, admit defeat...

1. Download / Clone Quail
2. Start Quail: (cd inside src first) ./quail.py go
3. Take a look here: 127.0.0.1:8000/abc/hi

First, make sure you've got Python 2.7.x on your system.

• open a terminal, and go to quail's folder
• For debugging and other times where you would want to see Quail's stdout/stderr, run ./quail.py go
• In a production environment, Quail can be started as a daemon. (./quail.py start, ./quail.py stop, ./quail.py restart)

Yes, plugins. Want to tell your 3D printer to print that model of a cactus from a simple API query? That's what I thought. For more about plugin development, look here