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Query Google with VB.NET


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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.

 

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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

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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.

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  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 :)

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