Re: [R] parsing Google search results

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Philip Leifeld leif...@coll.mpg.de wrote: Hi, how can I parse Google search results? The following code returns integer(0) instead of 1 although the results of the query clearly contain the regex cran. address -

Re: [R] parsing Google search results

Hi Philip, If i understood correctly, you just wish to get the urls from a given google search? I have some old code you could adapt which extracts the main links from a google search. It makes use of XPath expressions using the lovely XML and RCurl packages: library(XML) library(RCurl)

[R] parsing Google search results

Hi, how can I parse Google search results? The following code returns integer(0) instead of 1 although the results of the query clearly contain the regex cran. address - url(http://www.google.com/search?q=cran;) open(address) lines - readLines(address) grep(cran, lines[3]) Thanks