How to *Search* with google from inside my programme and get the search result?

[Fuzzyman]

Frank Potter wrote:
> I want to search something by a key word from inside my py script.
> The using google idea comes to my mind first because write a search
> programme from scratch is not so easy.
>
> I want to take advantage of goolge results, but I don't know how.
> To extract the result from html of google can get the result, but it's not
> reliable and stable because the html structure my be changed any time.
>
> Does google supply some webservice to programmers? I did see
> some a tool use google to search and use it's result from the programme very
> well. Its name is "Email catcher&sender 2.10", which can be download
> at http://www.worldminer.com/download.htm. Windows users can take a
> look at it. It supports more than google, but yahoo and some other search
> engines. How does it do it? I really need some hints.

If you'd like a (simple) example of using the google webservice, have a
look at googlerank -
htpp://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#google

In practise I've found the yahoo web services faster, simpler and less
restrictive, so you may want to try that.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml