Google does'nt allow use of their API's anymore, I belive Yahoo has one or
you could do something like below.
searchstring = 'stuff here'
x = os.popen('lynx -dump http://www.google.com/search?q=%s' %
searchstring).readlines()
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven D'Aprano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:22 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: internet searching program
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:59:02 -0700, KillSwitch wrote:
> Is it possible to make a program to search a site on the internet, then
> get certain information from the web pages that match and display them?
> Like, you would put in keywords to be searched for on youtube.com, then
> it would search youtube.com, get the names of the videos, the links, and
> the embed information? Or something like that.
Search the Internet? Hmmm... I'm not sure, but I think Google does
something quite like that, but I don't know if they do it with a computer
program or an army of trained monkeys.
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