Php script that sends requests to Google

Hi there,

Just decided that it would be fruitful to make a script that checks how many pages from my web-site are listed in Google (site:www.mysite.com) and saves results.

How can it be done? I got Google API key, but not sure that I'm on the right way. Google AJAX Search API is Greek for me... Do I really need to use it to get what I want?

May be there is a less complicated way? (I hope ).

This doesn't use the API, but here's a script I wrote to check how many pages/backlinks my site had:

Noodles’ Blog » Blog Archive » Google datacenter check

Thanks Noodles,

I wrote something similar to your script by myself (it gets the page using fsockopen() function). However as you indicated on your page: "Google would ban my server’s IP"... I'd like to build it the way it should be built and not be afraid of being caught for making "pirate's" requests.

google search api php - Google Search

However as you indicated on your page: "Google would ban my server’s IP"

There is still a limit of 1,000 requests per day per api key though.

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

google search api php - Google Search
There is still a limit of 1,000 requests per day per api key though.

1,000 requests per day is more than enough for me But how to build such an application with Google AJAX Search API?

You guys probably use SOAP API. Ufortunately from 5th of December Google doesn't give keys for SOAP API anymore and sends everyone to Google AJAX Search API.

SOAP API looked complicated for me. But I changed my mind after took a look at docs for Google AJAX Search API...

Basically, with AJAX search api doesn't have limitations of soap version, since all requests are performed on client side, not from a single server IP.

It would be still possible to use it in similar way as "old approach" extracting ajax request URLs, like:

HTML Code:

http://www.google.com/uds/GwebSearch?callback=GwebSearch.RawCompletion&context=0&lstkp=0&rsz=small&hl=en&sig=12f87b457bdbba45b248d920a09f1429&q=VW%20GTI&key=internal&v=1.0

and then manually process returned js code, although it's not designed to work in this way.