Query Google with VB.NET

[+John Teacake MVC]

Forgive my ignorance however I thought this is the best place to ask, I have been out of the programming game for a while now. My background is .NET (VB). What is the correct and up to date method that would allow me to query Google and extract this information? I did use a method before a few years back but access to this is stopped.

 

Thanks

[n_K]

How 'dirty' do you want to do it?
You could use an IE active x and do it like that.

[XerXis]

This would be the api to use:

 

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/overview

 

However, you can only do 100 queries a day.

 

Another way would be to just query the website with say WebClient and parse the html for the results. But that is very dirty and I don't recommend it, certainly not if you are planning on distributing your software

[+virtorio MVC]

You could use HttpWebRequest to perform a search in Google and parse the response using an HTML parser or regular expressions, but do so knowing it will almost certainly break in the future.

[+John Teacake MVC]

Yeah thats how I would have done it but parsing the HTML would be a dirty way to do it. I dont plan on putting my code into production at all its merely for self interest and curiosity and to stop my mind going stale.

[XerXis]

  On 23/02/2014 at 21:52, ChuckFinley said:

Yeah thats how I would have done it but parsing the HTML would be a dirty way to do it. I dont plan on putting my code into production at all its merely for self interest and curiosity and to stop my mind going stale.

Well, the link I gave you contains all the information, if you want to test it:

 

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/customsearch/v1/search.cse.list

 

The easiest way to use it from vb.net would be using WebClient and parsing the result with the newtonsoft json library :)

[+John Teacake MVC]

Think I am going to have to do alot of reading, I cant find any good code examples.

[Mulrian]

I'm pretty sure parsing the HTML results from queries breaks Google's terms of service as well. Best to use the API's they provide.

[+virtorio MVC]

Yeah, I just had a look for the hell of it and they don't return any results in the initial response anyway. Use the APIs.

[+John Teacake MVC]

Can anyone tell me if these are still relevant?

 

This looks like such a nice way to work?

 

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-for-dotnet/

 

https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/apis/

 

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c9b1f1e6-aa85-4a05-93a6-a8b511717f3c/google-api-for-net?forum=vbgeneral

[+John Teacake MVC]

Google was too difficult to get an API for the search. I went for Bing Instead. Much Easier to do what I want. 

[+John Teacake MVC]

This is what I am creating, Its not so much an E-Mail scraper...

 

http://youtu.be/OizvG5bq5NA