Search

SYNOPSIS

GoogleHack - Is a Perl package that interacts with the Google API, and has some basic functionalities that allow the user to issues queries to Google and manipulate the results. The Search.pl program shows the user how to use Google-Hack to issue search requests to Google.

DESCRIPTION

The examples in this module are meant to serve as a means of introducing to the user how to use Google-Hack to use the search method, and retrieve the results.

AUTHOR

Pratheepan Raveendranathan, <rave0029@d.umn.edu>

Ted Pedersen, <tpederse@d.umn.edu>

BUGS

SEE ALSO

GoogleHack home page Pratheepan Raveendranathan Ted Pedersen

Google-Hack Maling List <google-hack-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003 by Pratheepan Raveendranathan, Ted Pedersen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to

The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEARCH FUNCTION EXAMPLE

SEARCH FUNCTION - search(\%args)

Set your GoogleAPI Key

$key="";

Give the Entire location of your WSDL file

eg "/dirname/dirname/GoogleSearch.wsdl"

$wsdl="";

Create an Object of type WebService::GoogleHack

$google = new WebService::GoogleHack;

Initialize WebService::GoogleHack object to the key and WSDL config file path.

$google->init( "$key","$wsdl");

Now call search function like this:

Here I am searching for duluth.

$results=$google->Search("duluth");

The results variable will now contain the results of your query.

Printing the searchtime

print $google->{'searchTime'};

Printing the snippet element 0

print $google->{'snippet'}->[0];

Printing URL of the first result of the search for duluth.

print $google->{'url'}->[0];