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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
