get google results with php

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    Does anyone know a good script or piece of code that would return the first 10 results (links) for a given string?

    Thank you.
     
    amorph, Jun 14, 2007 IP
  2. Nefarious

    Nefarious Peon

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    here is some code I have that you can add together to make it work.


    This is pregmatch string will get you all the links.
    $pregmatch= '/<h2 class=r><a href="(.*?)" class=l>/';
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    This is the pregmatch command you can use to actually get the links out of the page.
    preg_match_all($pregmatch,$string,$links);
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    Now all you need to do is get the google results page into a string and you can run the preg_match_all command to put all the links into an array.

    $string should be the contents of the google results page
    $links[1] will be all the links in an array.

    print_r($links[1]); <--to view them all
     
    Nefarious, Jun 15, 2007 IP
  3. krakjoe

    krakjoe Well-Known Member

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<?
function first_google_results( $query )
{
	@preg_match_all( '~(<h2 class=r><a href="(.*?[^"])" class=l>(.*?)</a>.*?</h2>)~si', 
					file_get_contents( sprintf( 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnG=Google+Search', $query ) ), 
					$links 
	);
	return array(
		'anchors' => $links[3],
		'href' => $links[2]
	);
}
?>
<html>
<head>
	<title>Moogle - Mini Google</title>
</head>
<body>
	<form action="" method="get">
	<input type="text" name="q" /><input type="submit" value="Moogle Search" />
	</form>
	<?
		if( $_GET and $_GET['q'] )
		{
			$google = first_google_results( rawurlencode( $_GET['q'] ) );
			
			foreach( $google['href'] as $num => $link )
			{
				printf( "%02d&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"%s\">%s</a><br />\n", $num + 1, $link, $google['anchors'][ $num ] );
			}	
		}	
	?>
</body>
</html>
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    krakjoe, Jun 15, 2007 IP