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

Before scrapping data please read https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640?rd=1

Against google terms

Automated traffic includes:

Sending searches from a robot, computer program, automated service, or search scraper Using software that sends searches to Google to see how a website or webpage ranks on Google