How to extract google search results using PHP

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Added by ahristov on September-10-2007, 4:03 pm

How to extract google search results using PHP

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<?php 

   echo '<html> 
   <head> 
      <title>google search</title> 
   </head> 
   <body>'; 
       
   if(!isset($_POST['q'])) 
   { 
       echo ' 
       <form action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="post"> 
           <input type="text" name="q"> 
           <input type="submit" value="search"> 
       </form> 
   '; 
   }else{ 
       // this would be the URL if you want the results on page 2, 3 ... where $_POST['p'] is multiple of 10 
       // $off_site = 'http://www.google.com/search?q='.urlencode($_POST['q']).'&start='.$_POST['p']; 
      $off_site = 'http://www.google.com/search?q='.urlencode($_POST['q']).'&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8'; 
      $fp = fopen ($off_site, 'r') or die('Unable to open file '.$off_site.' for reading'); 
      while (!feof ($fp)) 
      { 
          $buf = trim(fgets($fp, 4096)); 
          $pos = strpos($buf,'<p class=g>'); 
          if($pos !== false) 
          { 
             $parts = explode('<p class=g>',$buf); 
             $parts2 = explode('http://',$parts[1]); 
             $parts3 = explode('>',$parts2[1]); 
             echo ' 
       <a href="http://'.$parts3[0].'" target="_blank">'.$parts3[0].'</a><br>'; 
           } 
       } 
   } 
       
   echo ' 
   </body> 
   </html>'; 
       
?>