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 the Google Ajax API.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/

See this thread for how to get the number of results. While it refers to c# libraries, it might give you some pointers.