Crawling Google Search with PHP

Question

I trying to get my head around how to fetch Google search results with PHP or JavaScript. I know it has been possible before but now I can\'t find a way.

I am trying to

Answer 1

There is php a github package named google-url that does the job.

The api is very comfortable to use. See the example :

// this line creates a new crawler
$googleUrl=new \GoogleURL\GoogleUrl();
$googleUrl->setLang('en'); // say for which lang you want to search (it could have been "fr" instead)
$googleUrl->setNumberResults(10); // how many results you want to check
// launch the search for a specific keyword
$results = $googleUrl->search("google crawler");
// finaly you can loop on the results (an example is also available on the github page)

However you will have to think to use a delay between each query, or else google will consider you as a bot and ask you for a captcha that will lock the script.