Using CURL with Google

Question

I want to CURL to Google to see how many results it returns for a certain search.

I\'ve tried this:

  $url = \"http://www.google.com/search?q=\".$str         


        

Answer 1

Use a GET request instead of a POST request. That is, get rid of

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

Or even better, use their well defined search API instead of screen-scraping.