Google Search Results PHP API via Serp Api
This PHP API is meant to scrape and parse Google, Bing or Baidu results using SerpApi.
The full documentation is available here.
The following services are provided:
SerpApi provides a script builder to get you started quickly.
Php 7+ must be already installed and composer dependency management tool.
Package available from packagist.
if you're using composer, you can add this package (link to packagist).
$ composer require serpapi/google-search-results-php
Then you need to load the dependency in your script.
<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
?>
if not, you must clone this repository and link the class.
require 'path/to/google-search-results';
require 'path/to/restclient';
Get "your secret key" from https://serpapi.com/dashboard
Then you can start coding something like:
$client = new GoogleSearch("your secret key");
$query = ["q" => "coffee","location"=>"Austin,Texas"];
$response = $client->get_json($query);
print_r($response)
This example runs a search about "coffee" using your secret api key.
The SerpApi service (backend)
Alternatively, you can search:
See the playground to generate your code. https://serpapi.com/playground
The SerpApi api_key can be set globally using a singleton pattern.
$client = new GoogleSearch();
$client->set_serp_api_key("Your Private Key");
Or
$client = new GoogleSearch("Your Private Key");
$query = [
"q" => "query",
"google_domain" => "Google Domain",
"location" => "Location Requested",
"device" => "device",
"hl" => "Google UI Language",
"gl" => "Google Country",
"safe" => "Safe Search Flag",
"num" => "Number of Results",
"start" => "Pagination Offset",
"serp_api_key" => "Your SERP API Key",
"tbm" => "nws|isch|shop"
"tbs" => "custom to be search criteria"
"async" => true|false # allow async
];
$client = new GoogleSearch("private key");
$html_results = $client->get_html($query);
$json_results = $client->get_json($query);
$client = new GoogleSearch(getenv("API_KEY"));
$location_list = $client->get_location('Austin', 3);
print_r($location_list);
it prints the first 3 location matching Austin (Texas, Texas, Rochester)
[{:id=>"585069bdee19ad271e9bc072",
:google_id=>200635,
:google_parent_id=>21176,
:name=>"Austin, TX",
:canonical_name=>"Austin,TX,Texas,United States",
:country_code=>"US",
:target_type=>"DMA Region",
:reach=>5560000,
:gps=>[-97.7430608, 30.267153],
:keys=>["austin", "tx", "texas", "united", "states"]},
...]
Let's run a search to get a search_id.
$client = new GoogleSearch(getenv("API_KEY"));
$result = $client->get_json($this->QUERY);
$search_id = $result->search_metadata->id
Now let's retrieve the previous search from the archive.
$archived_result = $client->get_search_archive($search_id);
print_r($archived_result);
it prints the search from the archive.
$client = new GoogleSearch($this->API_KEY);
$info = $client->get_account();
print_r($info);
it prints your account information.
$client = new GoogleSearch(getenv("API_KEY"));
$data = $client->get_json([
'q' => "Coffee",
'tbm' => 'isch'
]);
foreach($data->images_results as $image_result) {
print_r($image_result->original);
//to download the image:
// `wget #{image_result[:original]}`
}
this code prints all the images links, and download image if you un-comment the line with wget (linux/osx tool to download image).
The code described above is tested in the file test.php and example.php. To run the test locally.
export API_KEY='your secret key'
make test example
see: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-php/example_composer/
To run the code.
SerpApi supports all the major search engines. Google has the more advance support with all the major services available: Images, News, Shopping and more.. To enable a type of search, the field tbm (to be matched) must be set to:
The full documentation is available here.
Author: Victor Benarbia [email protected] For more information: https://serpapi.com
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