spx2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

Does anybody know a module for getting results from a Google search ?
I have tried some of the ones on cpan and they require some soap api key
that google has discontinued providing to people some time ago,
and some other modules I've tried but they didn't work.
Do you know any perl modules that you have used for this and worked ?

Regards,
Stefan

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Re: Google search modules
by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 20, 2008 at 07:34 UTC
    It's unlikely that you find such modules, because Google's Terms of Service don't allow automated search requests anymore, unless you have one of the old API keys.

    But you can buy a license for reasonable prices (somebody mentioned 100$ / year the other day), then you're allowd to do such queries again (and I think you'll get an API key and you can use all of those modules).

    See also How to call google search in Perl/CGI script

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