better way to scrape google result?

[dulldull]

Hi,

When users enter a string into an inputbox, I'd like that string to go two ways: one is to query our database, and google results will also be shown at the same time.

The only way I know (and apparently a silly way) is to use fopen(). For example,

$search_string = $_GET('searchstring')

$requesturl = "http://www.google.com/search?q=".$search_string;

Then use fopen() to scrap the page and trim out unnecessary layout.

I'm wondering if there's a better way to deal with it? I've briefly taken a look on Google AJAX Search. Is it possible to make a form processing that can combine google AJAX search and my local database together?

Any advice is appreciated.

[eelixduppy]

I would go with the Google AJAX API service. You have to then create Javascript that sends an XML request to a PHP script on your server that grabs the data from your database, and then you combine the two results together.

If you need help with the AJAX part of things I suggest you take a look on over in the Javascript Forum [webmasterworld.com] here at WebmasterWorld.

[dulldull]

thanks a lot. I'm trying to get some code example on using google ajax api .

[dazzlebot]

You could also try using a DOM parser, such as [simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net...]

I find this is very useful for processing the page results once obtained