#!/usr/bin/env python import cgitb import cgi import codecs, sys import xml.dom.minidom from urllib2 import Request, urlopen, URLError """ This program demonstrates the XML Results parsing for Google Site Search using cgi python. You must edit the 'your_cx_number' parameter below and deploy on a webserver supporting python cgi (tested on apache 2+linux). Send in a query ('q=') and a parameter indicating the result set to retrieve (&start=) to get XML Results from GSS. The &start= parameter isn't implemented in this script but feel fee to add it in and query /cse The XML results are minimally parsed and displayed to the user. see http://www.google.com/cse/docs/resultsxml.html """ sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout) cgitb.enable() print "Content-Type: text/html" print print 'GSS XML in python CGI ' print '' print '
' print '
' print '' print '
' your_cx_number = '008339188426815167219:z87xrys-eed' form = None form = cgi.FieldStorage() q = None try: q = None q = form['q'].value except KeyError: print 'No query term' if q is not None: u = 'http://www.google.com/cse?cx=%s&client=google-csbe&output=xml_no_dtd&q=%s' % (your_cx_number,q) req = Request(u); try: response = urlopen(req); content = response.read(); xmldoc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(content) print '

Query: %s


' %q # Estimated Results is inaccurate; do not use m_node = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('M') for nodes in m_node: if nodes.nodeName == 'M': print '
  • Estimated number of Results : %s
    ' % nodes.childNodes[0].nodeValue r_nodes = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('R') for rnode in r_nodes: title = '' link = '' snippet = '' rchild = rnode.childNodes for nodes in rchild: if nodes.nodeName == 'U': link = nodes.childNodes[0].nodeValue if nodes.nodeName == 'T': title = nodes.childNodes[0].nodeValue if nodes.nodeName == 'S': snippet = nodes.childNodes[0].nodeValue print '

    %s
    %s

    ' % (link, title, snippet) except URLError, e: if hasattr(e, 'reason'): print 'Error connecting to %s for %s: '% u, e.reason elif hasattr(e, 'code'): print 'Error code: $s for URL %s' % e.code, u print ' '