Comments on: How to Parse the Google Results Page using Regular Expressions Even if You’re a Total PHP n00b

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:27:45 +0000

Yeah, there’s definitely more than one way to skin this particular feline. This method attempts to be comprehensive in the amount of information it harvests from the SERP while still trying to maximize resilience against minor tweaks (e.g., Google switching from h2 to h3 tags).

I think it’s easier to use the tags as delimiters rather than stripping them before the parse, but I’m open to your code if you’d like to share it.

Thanks!

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:22:46 +0000

Thanks, try again with the latest version above, unless all you’re really after are the URLs, in which case a much simpler regexp would of course be preferable. I was attempting to be a bit more comprehensive (but not by much).

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:21:09 +0000

Thanks, I updated the code snippet above to reflect recent SERP changes.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:59:45 +0000

Your regexps didn’t work for me at the moment of writing this comment. I have used s simpler regexp to extract URLs: preg_match_all(‘/]+)/’, $content, $matches);

By: LAMPdocs: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

LAMPdocs: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:48:51 +0000

Simple Google SERP Parser in PHP…

Script to parse google search results. Works on all hosting services…….

By: Jason @ Searchologie

Jason @ Searchologie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:39:39 +0000

Hi Ryan – love this post, but I have a question for you – is there any way you can simplify parsing Google search results by creating a RE to pull all the a tags in the Google source code, then filter out/eliminate all the links based on their target (or another criteria)?

In my head, it seems simpler than trying to tackle the whole thing with a giant regular expression – then again, when things usually seem simpler, that’s when i get into a lot of trouble

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:43:03 +0000

I think google changed there page, or your regex is not working, any chance of an update?