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Re:Google Deactivates Web Search API by userbinator on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:35AM (#11627606)
If you have an HTML parser, it's just a matter of selecting the right DOM nodes.
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Re:Google Deactivates Web Search API by audiohihack on Saturday May 07, 2016 @10:04PM (#11652267)
Def not that easy with Google. It is not uncommon to see 20+ serp variations on a given day if you are crawling at high volume, changing user agents, etc. The whole process is fairly terrible to parse consistently.
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Re:Google Deactivates Web Search API by oneeyedpigeon on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:13AM (#11628471)
Yes, but if your markup is spaghetti, "selecting the right DOM nodes" becomes a lot more difficult.
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