[URGENT]Fetching page found in search and Google pagerank...

[ElecTroniXpress]

Hello, ladies and gentlemen! I wanted to know if someone could write a piece of code in PHP that would fetch the amount of pages found during a search. For example, if I go to HotBot, and search for "I want meow mix" (http://www.hotbot.com/default.asp?prov=Google&query=I+want+meow+mix&ps=&loc=searchbox&tab=web), it gives me the search results and it says "(Showing Results 1 - 10 of 17,200)". I want the script to fetch that "17,200" number and put it in some sort of variable. My other request is a piece of code that would fetch the Google pagerank of a website. Thank you for your time.

[cgraz]

What you'd do is run your query and count the total amount of results per page. You'd then divide that number by how many results you are display per page, but don't forget to use the ceil() function so that it calculates properly. It converts any leftovers into another page (or basically rounds up). Here's an example

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
$returned = mysql_num_rows($query);

$pagelimit = "10";

$pagenums = ceil ($returned/$pagelimit);

I'm not too sure what you mean by the google pagerank.

Cgraz

[ElecTroniXpress]

I meant to actually fetch the number of resutls on an actual, for example, Yahoo! search.

[cgraz]

ehh sorry, I must've read your post too quickly. I'm not sure how to do that, but I'll keep my eyes open in case I find anything.

Cgraz

[ElecTroniXpress]

I found a couple of scripts that fetch and compile a list of news headlines from different websites, but the code was complicated and I couldn't really understand much. So I know that it's possible, I just want it to fetch a little string from a page.

I know it has something to do with fread / fopen

[ElecTroniXpress]

Just to clarify for those who don't know what Google page ranks is, it's explained here: http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html.

[ElecTroniXpress]

Can anyone help please?

[superwormy]

www.php.net/fopen
www.php.net/fread
www.php.net/fclose

OR:

www.php.net/fsockopen
www.php.net/fgets

Use those to grab the page you want. Then you'll need to use some kinda string matching or regex stuff to get the number of results.

As far as the google Pagerank, who knows, the only that that displays it is the Google Toolbar yes? It's pointless anyway, the PageRank is just a small part of their algorithm and the ones they display are approximations, not exact PageRanks.

Send me an email [e-mail] if you need more help, I could give ya a script to do the string matching.

[ElecTroniXpress]

Here is what I made and it works (just if anyone wants to use it in the future).

<?php
////////////////////////////
////GOOGLE RESULTS FETCH////
////////////////////////////
//Get link
$openGoogle = fopen ("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=".$term,"r");
$readGoogle = fread ($openGoogle, 64000);
ereg("that <A HREF=(.*)/>", $readGoogle, $array);
$link_n_chars = $array[1];
fclose ($openGoogle);
//Get number of results
$openGoogle = fopen ("http://www.google.com".$link_n_chars,"r");
$readGoogle = fread ($openGoogle, 64000);
ereg("of about <b>(.*)</b>.   Search", $readGoogle, $array2);
$numberResults = $array2[1];
fclose ($openGoogle);
$numberResults = ereg_replace(",", "", $numberResults);
if (!$array2) { $numberResults = 0; }
echo $numberResults."<br />";
////////////////////////////
////LYCOS RESULTS FETCH/////
////////////////////////////
//Get number of results
$openLycos = fopen ("http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&query=linkdomain%3A".$term."&tab=web&adv=1&adf=-3","r");
$readLycos = fread ($openLycos, 64000);
ereg("of (.*) \(<a href", $readLycos, $array);
$numberResults = $array[1];
fclose ($openLycos);
$numberResults = ereg_replace(",", "", $numberResults);
if (!$array) { $numberResults = 0; }
echo $numberResults."<br />";
////////////////////////////
//ALTAVISTA RESULTS FETCH///
////////////////////////////
//Get number of results
$openAltavista = fopen ("http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=link%3A".$term."&kgs=0&kls=1&avkw=xytx","r");
$readAltavista = fread ($openAltavista, 64000);
ereg("AltaVista found (.*) results", $readAltavista, $array);
$numberResults = $array[1];
fclose ($openAltavista);
$numberResults = ereg_replace(",", "", $numberResults);
if (!$array) { $numberResults = 0; }
echo $numberResults;
?>

[jebster]

Originally posted by superwormy
It's pointless anyway, the PageRank is just a small part of their algorithm

Doesn't seem like it to me:

From Google
The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.

Originally posted by superwormy
As far as the google Pagerank, who knows, the only that that displays it is the Google Toolbar yes?

No.
For example, a quick look here:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/PHP/Resources/Chats_and_Forums/
Will show you what this sites pagerank is! 😉

[superwormy]

Good call jebster, had forgotten about that.

I sitll think PageRank is a small part of their algorithm, it's inherited from parent pages, so pages that havn't even been ranked can recieve very high PageRanks if their parent pages have high PageRanks.

It's only a small part of what Google does

[whoismikey]

ElectronicXpress
How would one make use of your code? Apart from what the code itself does. How would you use it on a site?

I want to try it out to understand why you needed it basically.