How to use BeautifulSoup to parse google search results in Python

Question

I am trying to parse the first page of google search results. Specifically, the Title and the small Summary that is provided. Here is what I have so far:

from urllib.request import urlretrieve
import urllib.parse
from urllib.parse import urlencode, urlparse, parse_qs
import webbrowser
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

address = 'https://google.com/#q='
# Default Google search address start
file = open( "OCR.txt", "rt" )
# Open text document that contains the question
word = file.read()
file.close()

myList = [item for item in word.split('\n')]
newString = ' '.join(myList)
# The question is on multiple lines so this joins them together with proper spacing

print(newString)

qstr = urllib.parse.quote_plus(newString)
# Encode the string

newWord = address + qstr
# Combine the base and the encoded query

print(newWord)

source = requests.get(newWord)

soup = BeautifulSoup(source.text, 'lxml')

The part I am stuck on now is going down the HTML path to parse the specific data that I want. Everything I have tried so far has just thrown an error saying that it has no attribute or it just gives back "[]".

I am new to Python and BeautifulSoup so I am not sure the syntax of how to get to where I want. I have found that these are the individual search results in the page:

https://ibb.co/jfRakR

Any help on what to add to parse the Title and Summary of each search result would be MASSIVELY appreciated.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Your url doesn't work for me. But with https://google.com/search?q= I get results.

import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import webbrowser

text = 'hello world'
text = urllib.parse.quote_plus(text)

url = 'https://google.com/search?q=' + text

response = requests.get(url)

#with open('output.html', 'wb') as f:
#    f.write(response.content)
#webbrowser.open('output.html')

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml')
for g in soup.find_all(class_='g'):
    print(g.text)
    print('-----')

Read Beautiful Soup Documentation