search.py

import urllib2
import json

"""search for homebrew on either app store"""
def search(query):
    response = urllib2.urlopen("http://switchbru.com/appstore/repo.json")
    contents = str(response.read())
    packages = json.loads(contents)["packages"]

    query = query.lower()
    resp = []

    for package in packages:
        if "title" in package and "description" in package and "details" in package:
            if package["title"].find(query) > 0 or package["description"].find(query) > 0 or package["details"].find(query) > 0:
                resp.append(package)
    
            string = "\n".join([x["title"] + " https://switchbru.com/appstore/#/" + x["name"] for x in resp])

    print(string)

query = raw_input("Enter search query: ")
search(query)