I've seen lots of google searches 2 rss converters - they all seem to be web-based cgi scripts though, plus I'm having a problem with XML::RSS even though I installed it and SOAP::Lite through cpan. What is wsdl or wdsl or whatever it's supposed to be? anyone have a succesful script? I also want to add the 10-limit loop from Google Hacks and the permuter too, then feed it to a diff.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use SOAP::Lite;
use XML::RSS;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use HTML::Entities ();

# Set up the query term from the cgi input
my $query = param("q");
my $key = param("k") || "bkasldkfjs";

# Initialise the SOAP interface
my $service = SOAP::Lite ->
   service('http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl');

# Run the search
my $result = $service -> doGoogleSearch ($key, $query, 0, 
                                         10, "false", "", "false",
                                         "", "latin1", "latin1");

# Create the new RSS object
my $rss = new XML::RSS (version => '0.91');

# Add in the RSS channel data
$rss->channel( title => "Google Search for $query",
link => "http://www.google.com/search?q=$query",
description => "Google search for $query",
language => "en",
);

# Create each of the items
foreach my $element (@{$result->{'resultElements'}}) {
$rss->add_item(
title => HTML::Entities::encode($element->{'title'}),
link => HTML::Entities::encode($element->{'URL'})
);
}

# print out the RSS
print header('application/xml+rss'), $rss->as_string;
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//second one i found

#!/usr/loca/bin/perl
# googly.pl
# usage: perl googly.pl <query>

my $google_key='adfsdf';

my $google_wsdl = "./GoogleSearch.wsdl";

use strict;

use SOAP::Lite;

my $query = shift @ARGV or die;

GoogleSearch.wsdl
my $google_search = SOAP::Lite->service("file:$google_wdsl");

my $results = $google_search ->
    doGoogleSearch(
        $google_key, $query, 0, 10, "false", "", 
                "false", "", "latin1", "latin1"
);

@{$results->{resultElements}} or exit;

foreach my $result (@{$results->{resultElements}}) {

print
    join "\n",
    $result->{title} || "no title",
    $result->{URL},
    $result->{snippet} || 'no snippet',
    "\n";
}
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Edited Steve_p - added code tags and made title more searchable

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