A Stupid Google Suggest Hack
Fredrik Lundh | December 2004 | Originally posted to online.effbot.org
import urllib URI = "http://www.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&js=true&qu=" def suggest(term): # get the javascript dataset text = urllib.urlopen(URI + urllib.quote(term)).read() # pretend it's python text = text.replace("new Array", "new_Array").rstrip().rstrip(";") # simulate the "google suggest" javascript environment dict = {} dict["frameElement"] = None dict["new_Array"] = dict["sendRPCDone"] = lambda *x: x # and run it return eval(text, dict) print suggest("python")
(since it’s using a bare eval, it’s probably not a good idea to use this in production code…)
update: if you want a slightly more usable data structure, you can replace the last line in the function with:
return zip(*eval(text, dict)[2:4])
which gives you something like:
[
('python', '80,300,000 results'),
('python tutorial', '19,700,000 results'),
('pythons', '1,840,000 results'),
('python ide', '2,400,000 results'),
('python list', '73,900,000 results'),
('python string', '2,240,000 results'),
('python dictionary', '1,500,000 results'),
...
]
update: Tokuhiro Masuno has written a more robust, RE-based version: PyGoogleSuggest (dead link) (but what’s with that staticmethod-in-class thingie? make it a function already!)
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