in reply to WWW::Google

IIRC google can return search results in XML. It could be slighly easier and more errorprone to parse it than parse HTML which can be changed in any day.

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Re: Re: WWW::Google
by Amoe (Friar) on Jan 21, 2002 at 21:31 UTC

    Definitely, it would be preferable to do that. I put a little research into the topic and couldn't find anything - Mostly only searched their "Services" page though.

    That would be much better, I could solve some parsing problems...*checks*



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      This PDF file mentions that you can use HTTP requests like 
      
    GET http://google.com/xml?q=YOUR_QUERY_HERE

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      to get search results in XML.

      But I've just checked it again and it seems it doesn't work anymore :(

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