array! for google suggest

rayzun

How to make a PHP script regex to take a webpage and put certain values into an array.

example:
google.com/complete/search?hl=en&js=true&qu=maker

the resulting webpage would contain plain text (no HTML)
if you've seen this page before you would know it is google suggest results displayed.

here is example from the URL above:

sendRPCDone(frameElement, "maker", new Array("makers mark", "makers diet", "makerere university", "maker", "makers", "makerere", "makers mark bourbon", "makers marks", "makers mark whiskey", "makersdiet.com"), new Array

And put these words in quotes into a PHP array?

bradgrafelman

Do you want the corresponding number of results on that page too? i.e.

Array (
    "makers mark" => "7,390,000 results",
    "makers diet" => "1,950,000 results"
)

and so on?

rayzun

re:
Do you want the corresponding number of results on that page too? i.e.

-
Im not sure if I would be able to put those results to any good, so right now, I would say no thanks. Later though this could be a useful addition to the script ??

bradgrafelman

Here's a very rough way to capture them I'd say:

$page_data = file_get_contents('http://google.com/complete/search?hl=en&js=true&qu=maker');

$page_data = str_replace('sendRPCDone(', '', $page_data);
$page_data = str_replace(');', '', $page_data);

$pattern = '/new Array\(([^)]+)?\)/';
preg_match($pattern, $page_data, $array);

$array = str_replace('"', '', $array[1]);
$array = explode(', ', $array);

rayzun

thanx!

works like a charm

bradgrafelman

If that indeed suits your needs, make sure you mark this thread resolved.