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Node.js - google

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.

Installation

npm install --save google

API Example

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. If you change the language you must translate the next page results text to detect the corresponding link.

var google = require('google')

google.lang = 'de'
google.tld = 'de'
google.nextText = 'Weiter'

google('node.js best practices', function (err, next, links){
  …
})

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:password@192.168.5.4:80',
  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){
  …
})

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License

Licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for more details.