Getting number of google results

[talon]

Does someone have any idea or the actual script that can bring me back the number of Google results based on multiply keywords?

 

[Jake232]

Don't know of a prebuilt script, but you could get one made pretty cheaply. It's only simple scraping.

 

[dchuk]

curl + xpath or mechanize + xpath...you could do this with like 4 lines of code

 

[talon]

Do you have this 4 lines of code?

 

[mattseh]

>>> web.grab('http://www.google.com/search?q=reddit').single_xpath('//div[@id="resultStats"]/string()')

I really should git push python-web improvements...

 

[dchuk]

Do you have this 4 lines of code?

require 'mechanize'
require 'nokogiri'

a = Mechanize.new
total_google_results = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(a.get("http://www.google.com/search?q=my+keyword").body).xpath(".//*[@id='resultStats']").text.match(/(\S+)\sresult/)[0].tr!(' result', '').tr!(',', '')

fun ruby chaining ftw

 

[talon]

>>> web.grab('http://www.google.com/search?q=reddit').single_xpath('//div[@id="resultStats"]/string()')

I really should git push python-web improvements...

WTF?!

 

[seomasterman1]

Not sure if you are just trying to find something so you can keep track of your keywords, or if you'd like to integrate it into your site...

If you are just looking for something to keep track of your keywords, Rank Checker addon for Firefox by seobook.com is a great tool which you can keep track of your KW, you can type in multiple keywords an it will check the ranks from Google, Bing and Yahoo.