google search as an rss feed

Question

Hi guys,

Is there a way to have treat google serach results as an rss feed?

For example say I worked for stackoverflow and wanted to montior how if the results from the following search url: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stackoverflow changes from day today.

It would be cool if I could append &output=rss to the url and get back a feed like with google news. But that does not seem to be supported.

Anyone have ideas? (Note I am programing with Ruby and Rails, if that matters)

Thanks!

Jonathan

Answer 1

No, Google doesn't offer that feature. If you need to parse/convert the result of a query on Google, you can use a (X)HTML parser such as Nokogiri.

Beware that automatic requests to Google may violate its TOS.

Answer 2

Google has the Google Alerts service, which notifies you whenever it finds new content matching a certain query. Besides sending to an email address (instantly, daily, weekly), it allows you to create an RSS feed out of it.