List of Links Super Scraper Maker

Turn some Google search results into a list that can be exported to CSV & imported to Google Docs or Excel or etc.

Pass a search string in, get a page (10 results), and pull the needed info. Increment a counter as needed to get the next page of results. Rinse & repeat.

Google search results live in a structure something like:

<div>
<-- lots of stuff -->
   <div id="ires">
       <ol>
           <!-- Div with Result -->
           <!-- Div with Result -->
           <!-- Div with Result -->
       </ol>
   </div>
<-- lots of stuff -->
</div>

Use requests to fetch the page, html5lib to parse, and BS4 to extract the info. Use CSV to write to CSV.

Requires

• Python 3
• BeautifulSoup4
• html5lib
• Requests

To use

Assumes you have python3 installed, along with pip3.

• Install requirements however you see fit. I use a virtualenv
• Use python3 scraper.py
• Follow the prompts

ToDo

• Error handling (there is very little)
• Clean up

Notes

Note that there's no error checking to speak of. I wrote this mainly for my own use, so use at yer own risk, ye'r on yer own - though if you know how to use this I dare say you probably know of another better faster way to do what this does. :)

Regardless, this was fun. I really like Python.