Google api results

[Stormer]

How do we get total no of results found on a particular keyword..throught google API

new programmer so Plz help me out

Jay

[jatar_k]

Hey Stormer,

personally I don't use it. Anyone else know?

[claus]

The URL you need is here: [google.com...]

Especially this part: [google.com...]

Look for: estimatedTotalResultsCount and estimateIsExact

[Stormer]

Thanks for the reply claus

but can u plz tell me how to useestimatedTotalResultsCount and estimateIsExact
coz i got no idea how do i use that

Some sort of syntax or so.
Stormer

[claus]

The API uses SOAP, so you'll have to use the SOAP::Lite [soaplite.com] module or perhaps Net::Google [search.cpan.org] for Perl (i assume you're using Perl bc of the choice of forum)

As for how to use those two variables, you can store them, use them for calculations, or print them out to the screen or a web page or whatever you want.

For examples, there's an O'Reilly book called "Google Hacks" with a few examples online, and there's also the newsgroup google.public.web-apis [groups.google.com]

In a thread in that group, i found this syntax example for you:

my $results = $googleSearch -> doGoogleSearch($key, $query, $offset,
10, "false", "", "false", "", "latin1", "latin1");
print "About $results->{'estimatedTotalResultsCount'} results.\n";

[Stormer]

Thanks claus

It worked

Stormer