Searching Google?

[Curt Hash]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Oltmans <rolf.oltmans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I want to search Google.com using a specific keyword and I just want
> to read back the response using Pyhon. After some thorough Googling I
> realized that I probably need a Search API key to do that. Is that
> correct? Now, I don't have a search key so is there a workaround?
> Please enlighten me.
>
> Thanks,
> Oltmans
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You just need to change your User-Agent so that Google doesn't know a
Python script is making the request:

import urllib2
headers = {'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.6'}
query = 'foo'
req = urllib2.Request('http://www.google.com/search?&q=' + query,
headers=headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
results = response.read()