Programmatically get Google search results

Question

How can I get Google search results from inside a program? I need to get an array of search results for a specified string.

Answer 1

So... nine years later, you can no longer do that. You do get JSON, but it's quite short and just says "The Google Web Search API is no longer available. Please migrate to the Google Custom Search API (https://developers.google.com/custom-search/)"

Google Custom Search can search the entire web using the 'Thing' schema.org topic. https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4513886?visit_id=636769478248533420-865620074&rd=1