I'm trying to program a simple search in google via C# that would run a query of my choice and retrieve the first 50 links. After thoroughly searching for a similar tool\correct API I realized that most of them are obsolete. My first try was to create a "simple HttpWebRequest" and scan the received WebResponse for "href=" which turned out to be not rewarding at all (redundancy) and very frustrating. I do have a Google API but I'm not sure how to use it for this purpose, although I know that there is an 1000 limit per day.
Gil
Here is working code.. obviously you will have to add the proper form and a few simple controls...
using HtmlAgilityPack;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.ServiceModel.Syndication;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Xml;
namespace Search
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
// load snippet
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument htmlSnippet = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void btn1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
listBox1.Items.Clear();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
byte[] ResultsBuffer = new byte[8192];
string SearchResults = "http://google.com/search?q=" + txtKeyWords.Text.Trim();
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(SearchResults);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
string tempString = null;
int count = 0;
do
{
count = resStream.Read(ResultsBuffer, 0, ResultsBuffer.Length);
if (count != 0)
{
tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(ResultsBuffer, 0, count);
sb.Append(tempString);
}
}
while (count > 0);
string sbb = sb.ToString();
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument html = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
html.OptionOutputAsXml = true;
html.LoadHtml(sbb);
HtmlNode doc = html.DocumentNode;
foreach (HtmlNode link in doc.SelectNodes("//a[@href]"))
{
//HtmlAttribute att = link.Attributes["href"];
string hrefValue = link.GetAttributeValue("href", string.Empty);
if (!hrefValue.ToString().ToUpper().Contains("GOOGLE") && hrefValue.ToString().Contains("/url?q=") && hrefValue.ToString().ToUpper().Contains("HTTP://"))
{
int index = hrefValue.IndexOf("&");
if (index > 0)
{
hrefValue = hrefValue.Substring(0, index);
listBox1.Items.Add(hrefValue.Replace("/url?q=", ""));
}
}
}
}
}
}