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Re: how to get url of google search
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 28, 2011 at 06:39 UTC
    See Google::Search on CPAN. The problem, though, is that Google has measly API limits for the AJAX search API. I think it only allowed me 50-100 consecutive requests, spaced 5 seconds apart.
Re: how to get url of google search
by thomas895 (Deacon) on Dec 28, 2011 at 07:39 UTC

    Use the following script, which takes advantage of the "I'm feeling lucky" feature of Google:

    #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; my $search = "bla"; #Your search term my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; #Construct the request object $ua->agent( "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101" ) +; #Google checks UAs, so set this to something common $ua->timeout( 10 ); #Give up after 10 seconds of waiting $ua->max_redirect( 0 ); #We only want the URL that google sends, so st +op after we submit $ua->env_proxy; #Load proxy info from the environment, if any is set my $response = $ua->get( "http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&btnI=Ik doe een gok&pws=0&luck +y=1&q=".$search #The URL to request ) or die( $! ); my $firstUrl = $response->header( "Location" ); #This contains the lin +k of the result page print $firstUrl;

    Update: I added some comments to the code to make reading a little easier

    ~Thomas~
      thomas895 this is not what i need.
      i need the url of the google page i.e the page on which search results are displayed

        You mean like

        perl -E'say "http://www.google.com/search?q=$ARGV[0]"' machine
Re: how to get url of google search
by jffry (Hermit) on Dec 28, 2011 at 17:02 UTC