Getting the URLs for the first Google search results in a shell script

Question

It\'s relatively easy to parse the output of the AJAX API using a scripting language:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import json

base = \'http://ajax.goog         


        

Answer 1

many years later, you can install googler

googler -n 1 -c in -l en search something here --json

you can control the number of output page using the n flag.

To get only the url, simply pipe it to:

grep "\"url\""|tr -s ' ' |cut -d ' ' -f3|tr -d "\""