This module allows you to search google by scraping the results. It does NOT use the Google Search API. PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THIS. The intent of using this is convenience vs the cruft that exists in the Google Search API.
This is not sponsored, supported, or affiliated with Google Inc.
npm install --save google
This prints out the first 50 search results of the query node.js best practices.
var google = require('google')
google.resultsPerPage = 25
var nextCounter = 0
google('node.js best practices', function (err, next, links){
if (err) console.error(err)
for (var i = 0; i < links.length; ++i) {
console.log(links[i].title + ' - ' + links[i].link) // link.href is an alias for link.link
console.log(links[i].description + "\n")
}
if (nextCounter < 4) {
nextCounter += 1
if (next) next()
}
})You can also specify the TLD of the Google search page and the language.
var google = require('google')
google.lang = 'de'
google.tld = 'de'
google('node.js best practices', function (err, next, links){
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})You can specify the options to be passed to request, see the request module for all available options.
var google = require('google')
google.requestOptions = {
proxy: 'http://user:[email protected]:80',
timeout: 30000,
localAddress: '127.0.0.1',
jar: true,
headers: {
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'Accept-Language': 'en;q=0.5',
'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0',
'Connection': 'keep-alive',
'DNT': 1
}
}
google('node.js best practices', function (err, next, links){
…
})Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for more details.
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