#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

# goolies: check popularity of words on Google. modified from:
# Example code from Chapter 2 of /Perl and LWP/ by Sean M. Burke
# http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/
# sburke@cpan.org

use LWP;
use URI::Escape;

die "Usage: goolies word1 word2\n" unless @ARGV;

foreach my $word (@ARGV) {
    next unless length $word;                           
    my $url = 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q='
    . uri_escape($word) . '&btnG=Google+Search';

    my ($content, $status, $is_success) = do_GET($url);

    if (!$is_success) {
        print "Sorry, failed: $status\n";
    } elsif ($content =~ m#of about <b>(\d+,?\d*,?\d*)</b>#) {

        print "$word: $1 matches\n";
    } else {
        print "$word: couldn't extract count due to some weird shit at $url\n";
    }
    sleep 2;                    # be nice to Google's servers!!!
}
##### subs #####

sub do_GET {
    my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    $browser->agent('Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)');    # tricked you!
    my $response = $browser->get(@_);
    return ($response->content, $response->status_line, $response->is_success, $response) if wantarray;
    return unless $response->is_success;
    return $response->content;
}