Wolfram Alpha
App · Research & Academia · 3 actions
Ask Wolfram|Alpha computational questions (maths, unit conversions, science, and facts) and use the answer in your workflows.
Actions
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ask a question | Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get its full breakdown: the headline answer plus every result section it produced. |
| Get a short answer | Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get a single short answer, such as '2464 miles'. |
| Get a spoken answer | Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get the answer phrased as a full sentence, suited to reading aloud or sending as a notification. |
Ask a question
Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get its full breakdown: the headline answer plus every result section it produced.
Inputs
- Question
querytextRequired - What to ask, in plain language -- for example 'distance from Earth to Mars' or 'integrate x^2 dx'.
- Units
unitstext - Optional. Which measurement system to answer in. Defaults to whatever Wolfram|Alpha infers from the question.One of:
metric,imperial.
Outputs
answertext- The headline answer, taken from the section Wolfram|Alpha marks as the primary result
podslist- Every result section, in the order Wolfram|Alpha returns them. The first restates the question.
Example output
{
"answer": "2464 miles",
"pods": [
{
"pod_id": "Input",
"primary": false,
"text": "distance | from | New York City\nto | Denver",
"title": "Input interpretation"
},
{
"pod_id": "Result",
"primary": true,
"text": "2464 miles",
"title": "Result"
}
]
}Get a short answer
Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get a single short answer, such as '2464 miles'.
Inputs
- Question
querytextRequired - What to ask, in plain language -- for example 'distance from Earth to Mars' or 'integrate x^2 dx'.
- Units
unitstext - Optional. Which measurement system to answer in. Defaults to whatever Wolfram|Alpha infers from the question.One of:
metric,imperial.
Outputs
answertext- The short answer, as a single line of plain text
Example output
{
"answer": "2464 miles"
}Get a spoken answer
Ask Wolfram|Alpha a question and get the answer phrased as a full sentence, suited to reading aloud or sending as a notification.
Inputs
- Question
querytextRequired - What to ask, in plain language -- for example 'distance from Earth to Mars' or 'integrate x^2 dx'.
- Units
unitstext - Optional. Which measurement system to answer in. Defaults to whatever Wolfram|Alpha infers from the question.One of:
metric,imperial.
Outputs
answertext- The answer as a spoken-style sentence, for example 'The answer is about 2464 miles'
Example output
{
"answer": "The distance is about 2464 miles"
}