search.py

"""Search Google from the command line

This program is part of "Dive Into Python", a free Python book for
experienced programmers.  Visit http://diveintopython.org/ for the
latest version.
"""

__author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (mark@diveintopython.org)"
__version__ = "$Revision: 1.2 $"
__date__ = "$Date: 2004/05/20 18:53:59 $"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004 Mark Pilgrim"
__license__ = "Python"

from SOAPpy import WSDL                                                 # ugh, need to install SOAPpy... but installing third-party libraries is PART of this chapter!
                                            # https://developers.google.com/soap-search/ - The SOAP Search API is no longer available.
# you'll need to configure these two values;
# see http://www.google.com/apis/
WSDLFILE = '/path/to/copy/of/GoogleSearch.wsdl'
APIKEY = 'YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY'

_server = WSDL.Proxy(WSDLFILE)
def search(q):                                                          # 12.1: Diving In  
    """Search Google and return list of {title, link, description}"""
    results = _server.doGoogleSearch(
        APIKEY, q, 0, 10, False, "", False, "", "utf-8", "utf-8")
    return [{"title": r.title.encode("utf-8"),
             "link": r.URL.encode("utf-8"),
             "description": r.snippet.encode("utf-8")}
            for r in results.resultElements]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    for r in search(sys.argv[1])[:5]:
        print r['title']
        print r['link']
        print r['description']
        print