Check if URL is indexed by Google using PHP

Question

I would like to know if it\'s possible to check if URL is indexed by Google using PHP.

Is this against their ToS?

Answer 1

To do so without an API is against the TOS. For low volume, you can:

// CHECK IF PAGE IS IN GOOGLE INDEX
$domain = 'stackexchange.com';
if (strstr(file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/search?q=site:$domain"), 'did not match any documents')) {
  // Page is not in the index
  print 'No Go!';
}
else {
  print 'All Good!';
}
exit;