"""Search Google from the command line This program is part of "Dive Into Python", a free Python book for experienced programmers. Visit http://diveintopython.org/ for the latest version. """ __author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (mark@diveintopython.org)" __version__ = "$Revision: 1.2 $" __date__ = "$Date: 2004/05/20 18:53:59 $" __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004 Mark Pilgrim" __license__ = "Python" from SOAPpy import WSDL # you'll need to configure these two values; # see http://www.google.com/apis/ WSDLFILE = '/path/to/copy/of/GoogleSearch.wsdl' APIKEY = 'YOUR_GOOGLE_API_KEY' _server = WSDL.Proxy(WSDLFILE) def search(q): """Search Google and return list of {title, link, description}""" results = _server.doGoogleSearch( APIKEY, q, 0, 10, False, "", False, "", "utf-8", "utf-8") return [{"title": r.title.encode("utf-8"), "link": r.URL.encode("utf-8"), "description": r.snippet.encode("utf-8")} for r in results.resultElements] if __name__ == '__main__': import sys for r in search(sys.argv[1])[:5]: print r['title'] print r['link'] print r['description'] print