Google Results in XML

[anjanesh]

Does Google have a facility to return Search Results in XML format ?
If not Google then any other like Yahoo, MSN etc ?

Thanks

[forkqueue]

Yes, using the Google API (http://www.google.com/apis/) you can have search results returned via XML.

[drugoon]

Google API returns results via SOAP acces. If you use PHP you can use NuSoap for free and have results returned in an array.

Or , of course you can use the Digital Point service (work very well I used it some time ago) ;)

[anjanesh]

I checked out Yahoo - its more straight forward - Just the appid and the keywords and the result is a direct XML file which can be used in any language.

[john_loch]

You can use the Google API for Google, the Yahoo developers api for Yahoo, and MSN format arg for xml..

ie:
Start here for Google;
http://www.google.com/apis/

Start here for Yahoo;
http://developer.yahoo.net/

MSN don't feature a developers Network for search (though there are sdks for other web services). For straight forward xml search results without any fuss, just add the format=xml or format=rss args to your search query url.. for example;
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=digitalpoint&format=xml

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

JL

[anjanesh]

Is it possbile to get Google ads in XML ?