Sending queries to google using python

Question

I need a code with which I can send queries to Google and get the results back for some processing. i am mostly interested in retrieving the snippets of the results. It would be nice if I can do this without installing any extra packages for Python. A pre-written api would also do the trick. Thanks

Answer 1

A simple url based fetching technique using urllib2:

• Why this request doesn't work?

See an example with google API

• http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje_snippets
• http://dcortesi.com/2008/05/28/google-ajax-search-api-example-python-code/