"""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
