Google search: Scrape results page in PHP for total results

Question

Is it possible to scrape the Google search results page using PHP to pull out the total number of search results found?

If so how would I go about doing this?

Thanks

Answer 1

This PHP class does it: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3924.html

"This class can be used to get the total number of results for given Google search query.

It accesses the Google search site to perform a query for given search terms.

The class parses the results page and extract the total number of results that the given search query returned."

Answer 2

try this using phpsimplehtmlparser

$search_query = 'google';
$url = sprintf('http://www.google.com/search?q=%s', $search_query);
$html = file_get_html($url);
$results = $html->find('#resultStats/b', 2)->innertext;

echo sprintf('Google found %s results for "%s"', $results, $search_query);