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Niels Bosma
Niels Bosma

Reputation: 11498

Programmatically get the number of indexed pages in Google?

As an SEO metric I'd like to programmatically get the number of by Google indexed pages.

(if I search "site:mydomain.com" I want the get number of pages found).

Is there any lib for this or do I need to parse a google request?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2143

Answers (4)

Brij
Brij

Reputation: 6122

you should use Google Webmaster Tool API. First login in google webmaster with gmail account and familiar with the functionality then see following developer guide:
http://code.google.com/apis/webmastertools/docs/2.0/developers_guide.html

Upvotes: 5

Robert W
Robert W

Reputation: 2961

Has your site been setup in Google Analytics? If so you can use the Google Analytics API to get such information.

If you're interested in how to implement this in asp.net refer to this question.

Upvotes: 2

Robert Venables
Robert Venables

Reputation: 5981

Here's something I put together that will work for a few queries per IP address per hour:

    public static Int32 GooglePages(string sourceDomain)
    {
        String googleSource
            = (new WebClient()).DownloadString(
                @"http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A" + sourceDomain);

        return Convert.ToInt32(
            Regex.Match(googleSource, 
                @"about \<b\>([0-9,]*)\<\/b\> from ")
                .Groups[1].Value.Replace(",", ""));

    }

If you are going to use it often, or make many queries on a regular basis I would recommend using an officially sanctioned API.

Upvotes: 3

Winston Smith
Winston Smith

Reputation: 21882

There's probably a Google API you can use, rather than parsing the results of a search.

Upvotes: 0

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