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in reply to LWP to Google

If you don't want to use the Google API, but parse the web page results, here's my code:
use strict; use IO::Socket::INET; my $limit = 5; #max number of output &google_search(@ARGV); sub google_search { my $keyword = shift; if (!$keyword) { die("no keywords\n"); } my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => "tcp", PeerAddr => "www.google.com", PeerPort => 80, Timeout => 3 ); if (!$socket) { die("error connecting to the server\n"); } $socket->autoflush(1); my $query = $keyword; $query =~ tr/ /+/; my $desc = ""; my $link = ""; my $junk = ""; my $idx = 0; my $nodoc = 0; print $socket "GET /search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=$query HTTP/1.1\r\n +"; print $socket "Host: www.google.com\r\n"; print $socket "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0\r\n"; print $socket "Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image +/pjpeg, */*\r\n"; print $socket "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\n"; print $socket "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n"; print $socket "\r\n"; while (my $buffer = <$socket>) { $buffer =~ s/\s+$//; $buffer =~ s/^\s+//; $buffer =~ tr/ //s; $buffer =~ s/<b>//g; $buffer =~ s/<\/b>//g; if (!$idx && ($buffer =~ /^<br><br>Your search - $keyword - did no +t match any documents./)) { print STDOUT "no doc found, sorry\n"; $nodoc = 1; last; } else { if (!$desc) { ($junk, $desc) = $buffer =~ /(<\/blockquote>|<div> +|<\/a><\/font> )<p class=g><a href=\S+>(.*?)<\/a>(<br>)?<font size=-1 +>([^<]| \- \[ | \.\.\.|<i>|<span class=f>)/; $desc =~ s/&amp;/&/g; $d +esc =~ s/&quot;/"/g; } if (!$link) { ($junk, $link) = $buffer =~ /(<\/blockquote>|<div> +|<\/a><\/font> )<p class=g><a href=(\S+)>(.*?)<\/a>(<br>)?<font size= +-1>([^<]| \- \[ | \.\.\.|<i>|<span class=f>)/; } if ($desc && $link) { if (++$idx > $limit) { last; } print STDOUT "$idx) $desc\n"; print STDOUT " $link\n"; $desc = ""; $link = ""; } } } close($socket); if (!$idx && !$nodoc) { print STDOUT "no doc found, sorry\n"; } } 1;


Depending on the results, Google's output page may change, so you have to mix some regex.

Run it using: perl file.pl you keywords here
Hope this helps.


P.S.: Google will change it's web design soon so this code may not work with the new one, I've to try.