Re: [Fwd: Re: [PHP] error while reading google-search-results]

LWP is a perl thing. Curl is probably the best thing to use. Have you tried using googles php api which they provide free? http://www.google.com/apis/ "Jens Lehmann" <jens.lehmann@goldmail.de> wrote in message news:3E69C27F.2050304@goldmail.de... > James Holden wrote: > > > > > > Welcome to a mine field of problems :-) > > > > 1. The url you have entered is invalid. Thats a good first check to > > make usually. Try /search?q=test to get that bit sorted. > > Ok, this was just a typo. :) > > > 2. Google prevents known useragents from accessing it's content as it > > believes you are acting as a spider or a search engine stealing thier > > content. To counter this you need to use a new url capturing method and > > specifically set the name of the useragent. Use 'MSIE'. You can use > > curl, lwp etc to do this kind of thing. > > Curl is excellent, fast, highly configurable and execellent with secure > > connections. > > I heard about curl, but not about lwp. I can't find documentation for > lwp on php.net. I must check out if I can use one of these. > > > 3. I suggest you don't do this - they prevent it for a reason. > > It's part of a larger project and not especially related to google. The > script should be able to read in any website and do some processing. One > of its functions should (later) be to determine search engine positions. > Is there a simple way to do this without reading in the search results > of google (or other search engines)? > > Jens > > >