CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Antoine
Antoine

Reputation: 5245

Automatic query to Google search?

I've had a look at code.google.com, but I didn't find anywhere how to programatically make a search query to Google and get the results. Do you happen to know if this is possible, using some web services or any other way?

Of course, there's always the possibility to send a search query, get the HTML content of the result page and parse it, but I'd like to avoid such trouble, if possible.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7207

Answers (2)

dreftymac
dreftymac

Reputation: 32370

Google has had a remarkable history and somewhat . bumpy evolution of its search API There have also been some attempts by third parties to appropriate the content.

It may be worth it to you to do a quick background check on where Google has been, and where it is now regarding its search API (via the links above). Different people have viewpoints on how much better Google search API is over just personal-web-scraping (the option you appear to want to avoid).

It may also be worth re-emphasizing that Google is not the only game in town.

Upvotes: 3

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338178

This is possible trough the Google AJAX Search API.

Upvotes: 0

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