automate google searchs?

[EccentricDyslexic]

Hi peeps,

its been a while since I last did any vb (or any programming for that matter) so please be gentle.

I want to write a simple vb.net app that has a window, in which text is pasted and then, each sentence is found and passed to Google for searching on the net.

From the results of the search, I want to be able to filter out any site that falls within a set of pre listed sites and favour any in another list of sites for then passing out the other end, maybe as an email in a simple report with hyper links.

Has anyone seen anything like this don before or can offer any places to start?

Cheers,

Steve

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not entirely sure which part of that is necessarily the question. The problem of taking text and chopping it into sentences isn't quite as simple as it may seem, so that might, alone, be a problematic undertaking. If you can assume fairly simple syntax, it would likely be sufficient to break on periods, but that will only work if you assume no abbreviations were used (i.e. e.g.), and numbers would also make it not quite as easy as 3.1415.

Beyond that you have Google. Lots of sites don't want you automating anything, and Google is a bit vague on the subject, but they do provide an API:

https://developers.google.com/custom...pi/v1/overview

I note that the use is free for up to 100 searches per day. An API approach is always going to be FAR superior to trying to automate a website, so this is certainly the way to go. Not only is it likely to remain relatively stable when compared to a web site, it also provides the results in a format that is pretty accessible. That API should work ok through .NET, too.

[jdc20181]

To search you simply, take the Search Query URL of Google, and combine it with your text keywords, and navigate.

Webbrowser1.navigate(https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q= & Textbox1.text)

In your case you would also loop through each string to get what you are wanting, and maybe even fill a listbox or something with the results. Etc.

You can also use API's but I know nothing of those - in this context/situation.