[tathagatadg]

Whoa! I was just doing the same thing but with stackoverflow's api and in vim ... instead of making the query from the command line i.e. leave your editor, I'm thinking of writing the query like a comment and highlight it so that I can see the returned search results in a separate buffer. Haven't made much progress due to unfamiliarity with programming vim

[ajanuary]

It was my understanding it's easy to run a terminal command from vim.

[jgeralnik]

Yes, it's just

  :r!howdoi python regex

:r! executes a command and inserts its standard output below the cursor

[tathagatadg]

Cool! ... that solves it! One less unfinished side project