python-googlesearch

googlesearch

googlesearch lets you use Google Searching capabilities right from your Python code or from your CLI

Make any Google Search right from Python!

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

You will need Python 3 to use this module

# vermin output
Minimum required versions: 3.2
Incompatible versions:     2

According to Vermin, Python 3.2 is needed

Always check if your Python version works with googlesearch before using it in production

Installing

Option 1: From PyPI

pip install python-googlesearch

Make sure to download python-googlesearch as googlesearch cannot be given to any package on PyPI

Even if you download python-googlesearch, googlesearch is used for the imports and the CLI version for conveniency purposes

Option 2: From Git

pip install git+https://github.com/Animenosekai/googlesearch

You can check if you successfully installed it by printing out its version:

$ python -c "import googlesearch; print(googlesearch.__version__)"
# output:
googlesearch v1.1.1

or just:

$ googlesearch --version
# output:
googlesearch v1.1.1

Usage

You can use googlesearch in Python by importing it in your script:

>>> from googlesearch import Search
>>> python_results = Search("Python")
>>> python_results.results
[<SearchResult title="Python.org" (www.python.org)>, <SearchResult title="Python" ()>, <SearchResult title="Python (langage) — Wikipédia" (fr.wikipedia.org › wiki › Python_(langage))>, ...]

CLI usage

You can use googlesearch in other apps by accessing it through the CLI version:

$ googlesearch --query Python
{
    "query": "Python",
    "results": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.python.org/",
            "title": "Welcome to Python.org",
            "displayedURL": "www.python.org",
            "description": "The official home of the Python Programming Language.\nDownloads \u00b7 Python For Beginners \u00b7 Quotes about Python \u00b7 Python Essays"
        },
        [...]
    ],
    "relatedSearches": [
        "Python serpent",
        "Python openclassroom",
        [...]
    ],
    "success": true
}

Interactive Shell (REPL)

An interactive version of the CLI is also available

$ googlesearch
Enter '.quit' to exit googlesearch
[?] (googlesearch ~ Query) > : ... # enter your query

[?] What do you want to do?: # select the result with your keyboard's arrows and [enter]

—————————————————SEARCH RESULT—————————————————
[...] # site's name

Description: # the site's description
URL: ... # site's URL
Related Searches: # a max of 3 related searches

You can get help on this version by using:

$ googlesearch --help
usage: googlesearch [-h] [--version] [--query QUERY] [--langua...

As a Python module

Search

The search class represents a Google Search.

It lets you retrieve the different results/websites (Search.results) and the related searches (Search.related_searches)

How to use

This class is lazy loading the results.

When you initialize it with Search(), it takes a query as the required parameter and the following parameters as optional parameters:

• language: The language to request the results in (All of the website won't be in the given language as it is biased by lots of factors, including your IP address location). This needs to be a two-letter ISO 639-1 language code (default: "en")
• number_of_results: The max number of results to be passed to Google Search while requesting the results (This won't give you the exact number of results) (default: 10)
• retry_count: A positive integer representing the number of retries done before raising an exception (useful as googlesearch seems to fail sometimes) (default: 3)
• parser: The BeautifulSoup parser to use (default: "html.parser")

It will only load and parse the website when results or related_searches is called.

parser is the BeautifulSoup parser used to parse the website and .

results is a list of googlesearch.models.SearchResultElement.

related_searches is a list of Search elements.

SearchResultElement

This class represents a result and is initialized by googlesearch.

It holds the following information:

• url: The URL of the website
• title: The title of the website
• displayed_url: The URL displayed on Google Search
• description: The description of the website

Extra

Every class has the as_dict function which converts the object into a dictionary. For Search, the as_dict function will convert the other Search objects in related_search to a string with the query.

Exceptions

All of the exceptions inherit from the GoogleSearchException exception.

You can find a list of exceptions in the exceptions.py file

Deployment

This module is currently in development and might contain bugs.

Feel free to use it in production if you feel like it is suitable for your production even if you may encounter issues.

Built With

• beautifulsoup4 - To parse the HTML
• requests - To make HTTP requests
• pyuseragents - To create the User-Agent HTTP header
• inquirer - To make a beautiful CLI interface

Authors

• Anime no Sekai - Initial work - Animenosekai

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for more details