WebService::Google::Suggest - Google Suggest as an API
version 0.05
use WebService::Google::Suggest; my $suggest = WebService::Google::Suggest->new(); my @suggestions = $suggest->complete("goog"); for my $suggestion (@suggestions) { print "[" . $suggestion->{rank} . "] " . $suggestion->{query} . ":" . $suggestion->{results} results . "\n"; }
WebService::Google::Suggest allows you to use Google Suggest as a Web Service API to retrieve completions to your search query or partial query. This module is based on Adam Stiles' hack (http://www.adamstiles.com/adam/2004/12/hacking_google_.html).
$suggest = WebService::Google::Suggest->new();
Creates new WebService::Google::Suggest object.
@suggestions = $suggest->complete($query);
Sends your $query to Google web server and fetches suggestions for the query. Suggestions are in a list of hashrefs, for example with query "Google":
$query
@suggestions = ( { query => "google", results => 0, rank => 0 }, { query => "google toolbar", results => 0, rank => 1 }, ... );
Note that results value does NOT contain commas and "results" text.
results
$ua = $suggest->ua;
Returns underlying LWP::UserAgent object. It allows you to change User-Agent (Windows IE by default), timeout seconds and various properties.
http://www.adamstiles.com/adam/2004/12/hacking_google_.html
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
http://labs.google.com/suggest/faq.html
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>, franck cuny <franck@lumberjaph.net>
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Tasuhiko Miyagawa.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install WebService::Google::Suggest, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WebService::Google::Suggest
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WebService::Google::Suggest
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.