Searching for HTML Source?

Is there a way to search Google's cache?

[peterq]

Does anyone know of a way to search for HTML source code using Google's page caching or something similar? I couldn't find a reference to the cached page field in the Google API. If the data is there, it seems they'd offer to search it-- filtering out searches for actual tags of course.

Many thanks in advance of a response.

[DerekH]

Welcome to Webmasterworld, peterq

Let me bump this back up for you...

Does anyone know of a way to search for HTML source code using Google's page caching or something similar? I couldn't find a reference to the cached page field in the Google API. If the data is there, it seems they'd offer to search it-- filtering out searches for actual tags of course.

What do you mean - to search the HTML filtering out the ACTUAL tags?
HTML without the tags is the page content - that's why CSS and HTML coexist so well...

Do explain what you mean...
DerekH

[peterq]

Thanks a ton for your reply! For example: If you look at the source Google's cache of google.com:

[64.233.167.104...]

...I would like to be able to search for ".h{font-size: 20px;}" and have Google.com come up as a result. I would like to be able to search the source code of the entire google index if possible. I don't know if anyone else keeps a cache of every page, or not.

In the Google API, I see I can return the cache for a given page with a single request, but there is no method to include the cache in the search. I can only imagine what kind of resources such a search would take, but I wonder if anyone has seen such a thing.

Thanks again!

[treeline]

Boy, if you can do that it would really help hackers writing viruses like the one attacking phpbb right now.

[peterq]

Very good point-- a good reason for Google not to expose the cache.

Too bad those people are already doomed by the "powered by phpbb".

[lizardx]

<< Too bad those people are already doomed by the "powered by phpbb". >>

You're not doomed, all you have to do is upgrade to 2.0.11, it's an easy upgrade. With no board mods, it takes about 5 minutes. With mods it takes longer of course. But only an hour or two.

[fclark]

I asked about the same thing in this thread [webmasterworld.com] last month.

Basically, a new google search tag along the lines of inurl: (e.g. inhtml: ) would be really handy.

[kaled]

I would certainly like to be able to search html source to look for copyright infringements.

I would suggest source: rather than inhtml:

Kaled.

[peterq]

Ah, Kaled! Exactly why I asked. Google is already very useful for content copyrights, but source code copyrights would be a plus!