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GScraper is a web-scraping interface to various Google Services.

• Supports the Google Search service.
  • Provides access to search results and ranks.
  • Provides access to the Sponsored Links.
• Provides HTTP access with custom User-Agent strings.
• Provides proxy settings for HTTP access.

• json ~> 1.6
• uri-query_params ~> 0.5
• mechanize ~> 2.0

$ gem install gscraper

Basic query:

q = GScraper::Search.query(:query => 'ruby')

Advanced query:

q = GScraper::Search.query(:query => 'ruby') do |q|
  q.without_words = 'is'
  q.within_past_day = true
  q.numeric_range = 2..10
end

Queries from URLs:

q = GScraper::Search.query_from_url('http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ruby&as_epq=&as_oq=rails&as_ft=i&as_qdr=all&as_occt=body&as_rights=%28cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial%29.-%28cc_nonderived%29')

q.query # => "ruby"
q.with_words # => "rails"
q.occurs_within # => :title
q.rights # => :cc_by_nc

Getting the search results:

q.first_page.select do |result|
  result.title =~ /Blog/
end

q.page(2).map do |result|
  result.title.reverse
end

q.result_at(25) # => Result

q.top_result # => Result

A Result object contains the rank, title, summary, cahced URL, similiar query URL and link URL of the search result.

page = q.page(2)

page.urls # => [...]
page.summaries # => [...]
page.ranks_of { |result| result.url =~ /^https/ } # => [...]
page.titles_of { |result| result.summary =~ /password/ } # => [...]
page.cached_pages # => [...]
page.similar_queries # => [...]

Iterating over the search results:

q.each_on_page(2) do |result|
  puts result.title
end

page.each do |result|
  puts result.url
end

Iterating over the data within the search results:

page.each_title do |title|
  puts title
end

page.each_summary do |text|
  puts text
end

Selecting search results:

page.results_with do |result|
  ((result.rank > 2) && (result.rank < 10))
end

page.results_with_title(/Ruby/i) # => [...]

Selecting data within the search results:

page.titles # => [...]

page.summaries # => [...]

Selecting the data of search results based on the search result:

page.urls_of do |result|
  result.description.length > 10
end

Selecting the Sponsored Links of a Query:

q.sponsored_links # => [...]

q.top_sponsored_link # => SponsoredAd

Setting the User-Agent globally:

GScraper.user_agent # => nil
GScraper.user_agent = 'Awesome Browser v1.2'

GScraper - A web-scraping interface to various Google Services.

Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Hal Brodigan (postmodern.mod3 at gmail.com)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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