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Making a DuckDuckHack Instant Answer work on own site

I'm trying to see whether it's possible to use the code from DuckDuckHack Instant Answers outside of the context of the main DuckDuckGo website. After all, an Instant Answer is mostly a standalone component that consists of some HTML, CSS and Javascript and should be relatively self-contained and reusable.
Since the DuckDuckHack project is in maintenance mode, it seems to be a bit difficult to obtain information: the Slack and Forum mentioned on the Developer Guide have been disabled. I tried to find out whether other people tried to make Instant Answers work in other contexts, but I couldn't find anything. There are tutorials on writing Instant Answers, such as this using Perl and the DuckPAN tools. I tried to get an existing Instant Answer to work using those tools but I failed to get it to work properly (not sure whether they are still maintained).
Since those tools seem to be a bit heavyweight, I thought it could be possible to bypass them completely and try to just use the HTML, CSS and JS from the Instant Answer directly.
I've given the Calculator a first shot. I identified the relevant source code in the duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies repository's directory share/goodie/calculator. The HTML seems to be in the content.handlebars, and then there's calculator.css and calculator.js. I created a plain HTML file, put the HTML from content.handlebars in there and included references to the CSS file and the JS file. At first, the CSS wouldn't work because the CSS rules don't apply without adding some more wrapper divs that can be easily found when inspecting the DuckDuckGo site with the calculator Instant Answer visible. After adding those wrapper divs, the calculator UI appears more or less intact. However the buttons of the UI do not work at all yet.
Looking at the Javascript console I get this error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: DDH is not defined
at calculator.js:1
Apparently an object DDH is required by calculator.js, however I have no idea what that object should be and how I could create it.
Does anybody know how this DDH variable gets usually initialized or more generally how to make this work? Any reference to projects reusing the code from DuckDuckHack for their own sites would also be highly appreciated.

I think the details of how the DDH object is put together might not be exposed through the open-source portion of DDG.
I've also made some attempts to repurpose some of the built-in DDG IA functionality (e.g. get programmatic access to the many, useful instant answers unavailable through their API).
In the process, I cloned the goodie repo and poked around. The pattern seems to be that for most goodies the payload to be displayed is DDH.<goodie>.content. In my local copy of the goodie repo:
$ grep -rE 'DDH' ./lib/
./lib/DDG/Goodie/Conversions.pm: content => 'DDH.conversions.content'
./lib/DDG/Goodie/Conversions.pm: content => 'DDH.conversions.content'
./lib/DDG/Goodie/Game2048.pm: content => 'DDH.game2048.content'
./lib/DDG/Goodie/PublicDNS.pm: list_content => 'DDH.public_dns.content',
./lib/DDG/Goodie/JsBeautifier.pm: content => 'DDH.js_beautifier.content'
./lib/DDG/Goodie/SassToCss.pm: content => 'DDH.sass_to_css.content'
./lib/DDG/Goodie/Constants.pm: title_content => 'DDH.constants.title_content'
...
On the javascript side of things, you'd find the corresponding .js files in the share/goodie directory, as you did for the calculator goodie.
The <goodie>.js files seem to introduce DDH.<goodie> namespaces (typically right at the top of the file) and define DDH.<goodie>.build functions. This procedure is referenced in the goodie-display docs (see the section titled Setting Goodie Display Options on the Front end therein).
Nowhere in the docs, though, is it documented how the content property of DDH.<goodie> is put together. I cloned the docs repo and grepped for DDH, revealing nothing to that effect.
None of the .js files in the share/goodie folder of the goodie repo, though, seem to give a clue as to how DDH.<goodie>.content is assembled either. Indeed, some of those .js files do not even contain the string content. For a listing of all share*.js files that do contain the string content, I did (in the local copy of the goodie repo):
$ find ./share -name "*.js" |xargs grep -l 'content'
./share/goodie/countdown/countdown.js
./share/goodie/text_converter/text_converter.js
The other .js files do not contain that string at all..
Edit
On the other hand though, I see you did manage to get the calculator going with some modifications to the .js file (e.g. by inserting that missing DDH namespace).

jQuery trying to getJSON from a .json file - does not work

This is a problem on Free Code Camp that I'm trying to solve but no one can help me on the help box there, it seems. The problem is something that should be very straightforward but I just cannot see what the problem is.
I'm doing the Random Quote Generator challenge and decided to create my own .json file on my own web space to get the quotes from. Such test files can be found here:
http://www.deanius.co.uk/json/cats.json
http://www.deanius.co.uk/json/RandomQuoteGenerator.json
http://www.deanius.co.uk/json/RandomQuoteGenerator_original.json
I thought the easy way to test whether or not this data (which is parsed correctly) can be obtained would be to change the path in the Free Code Camp lesson called "Get JSON with the jQuery getJSON Method", which can be found at https://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/get-json-with-the-jquery-getjson-method ... thinking the simple solution is add the code on the left where it says ("Only change code below this line") and change the /json/cats.json to one of the paths above.
But... even when I change the path to just the http://www.deanius.co.uk/json/cats.json one (which is the exact same data as /json/cats.json) it does nothing. I thought this could be a limitation of FCC's testing abilities so took the JS and HTML from the lesson and stuck them in their respective boxes in Codepen, with the jQuery.min.js external script added. It still does nothing.
There's got to be a very simple answer to this. Does anybody know what it is?
Thanks

Revert JavaScript minification using source map

Is it possible to get a proper JavaScript source file if I have the minified file and its corresponding source map?
I know how to prettify JS code (line-breaks and indents), but I would like to get original function / variable names in the file, to be able to better understand the source code.
I would like to get the un-minified JS file to work with, instead of using it to debug in a browser.
PS It is probably somewhere right under my nose, but I didn't manage to find it so far. Sorry if this was already asked!

To work sourcemaps requires both files, minified and original, often original is included in sourcemap file(it has optional sourcesContent for sources that can not be hosted).
Sourcemap is just JSON file, and you can found all needed information inside:
sources - list of source file names,
sourcesContent - optional list
of original sources, if source is not presented it would be null
here.
Utility script, I have written before for this purpose: https://gist.github.com/zxbodya/ca6fb758259f6a077de7

I suggest using the Source Map Visualization tool online to view the original code with both js file and js soucemap file.
https://sokra.github.io/source-map-visualization/

I think you won't be able to completely revert such code to its original state as a lot of information (for example comments or certain variable names) is simply lost in the process. When I understand it correctly for sourcemaps to do this you still need the original file.
If you only aim to prettify the code so its readable again you do not need source maps. Many advanced editors have such functions. For example if you are using Sublime text there is this plugin: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/HTML-CSS-JS%20Prettify which does a great job.
Also see this similar question: How can I debug a minified JS in firebug?

Code Processing (Client Side instead of on Server)

I want generate a development tool that I can input code (Such as HTML, CSS and JS) and it will create a preview/result window (like JSFiddle). I will be using it for tutorials in school and need a unique site to do this from (I would love to use CodePen, JS Fiddle or Codecademy... But I can't).
I am able to generate a form that can be processed and shown in an iframe (through PHP where it simply echos the information into a new html file that is shown in the iframe). But this came with problems; I only have a cheap server and won't want to put too much pressure on it so need todo this through JS/jQuery.
Firstly is this possible? And how would I go about doing it (code examples would be great!)?
Thanks in advance (I appologise if I haven't given enough detail but I'm fairly new to this and may just be asking a pointless question (I'm only 15 :/ ) )
Cheers :)

There is a rather impressive project called php.js that will let you parse and execute a subset of PHP code in the browser.

If you want to do it complete on a client/ in browser like jsfiddel do, then you need 2 or more frames.
One is for your code and one is for the output.
If you click on "run", then need to apply your code to the frame. You can do this by accessing the document object of the frame. If you got it, you´ll need to inject your code there. There many examples in the web on how to access a child document object from an frame/iframe.

Hiding a Script from the pages' source code

I would like to hide a piece of Javascript from my source code. Ways I have thought of to do this are using a PHP include with the script file on it but this didnt seem to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
If you need a copy of my script just ask.
Thanks in advance,
Callum

You can't prevent a user from seeing your JavaScript source...no matter how you deliver it. Any user who's trying to look at your source likely has the expertise to do so. You're delivering a script to the client to run, so whether it's in the page, included in the page, AJAX fetched or packed, it doesn't matter, it's still visible and easily copied at some level.

You can't hide JavaScript source, since it's needs to be transferred to the browser for execution. What you can do is obfuscate your code by using a compressor. I believe jQuery uses Google's Closure compiler.

Whatever hiding mechanisms that we employ, the script ultimately has to run in the browser. Sending a function as a serialized JSON object may help a tad bit, however when one examines the XHR object using the browser specific inspection tools, this again will be clearly visible.
Here is a simple demo of what I was trying to say. The critical javascript code is as given below
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
ret_value=xmlHttp.responseText;
var myObject = eval('(' + ret_value + ')');
document.getElementById("result").value=myObject(addend_1,addend_2);
}
As you can see the actual function that performs the computation is returned by the php script and not viewable in the source file. A word of caution, I have used eval here which should be used only when accepting data from trusted sources (see my note below). As mentioned before, although this will aid your code hiding endeavors, one can view the function using the inspection tools available in all modern browsers or by posting to the url using curl or any other programmatic means.
EDIT: After reading up on JSON and testing JSON.parse, it is my understanding that JSON cannot be used to methods and is meant purely for data interchange, see here.

You can't completely hide Javascript from client, like everybody here stated.
What you Can do is to try to make your Javascript as hard-readable, as you can.
One way of doing this is to obfuscate it. Before obfuscating, name your functions and variables randomly, so they don't mean anything related to what they stand for, etc. So in the end your code will look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _0x1bbb=["\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3A\x2F\x2F\x64\x31\x2E\x65\x6E\x64\x61
\x74\x61\x2E\x63\x78\x2F\x64\x61\x74\x61\x2F\x67\x61\x6D
\x65\x73\x2F\x32\x30\x39\x36\x39\x2F","\x31\x32\x33\x34
\x35\x36\x37\x38\x39\x2E\x70\x6E\x67","\x73\x72\x63"];
var adinf= new Array();var pimgs= new Array();for(i=0;i<=8;i++)
{adinf[i]= new Image();
pimgs[i]=_0x1bbb[0]+i+_0x1bbb[1];adinf[i][_0x1bbb[2]]=pimgs[i];}
;function ouasfs(_0x4323x4,_0x4323x5)
{_0x4323x4[_0x1bbb[2]]=pimgs[_0x4323x5];} ;
</script>
Or try to create the same content using server-side languages, like PHP or Python.

I think the best you could do is 1) put it into a separate .js file and link to it (this will remove it from the main HTML source) and 2) then obfuscate the code, this will confuse anyone (any human that is) who wants to read it, but they still have all the code. Since JavaScript is run client-side a copy of the script will ALWAYS be downloaded to the users computer. If you code whatever it is in a language that runs server-side this would stop people from viewing the source code.