[RESOLVED] Capturing and parsing internet search results

[ncracraf]

Does anybody know of a way (or existing tools) to capture internet search results (Specifically title and url) and parse them into a table? I'm trying to build a toolkit for adding reference links to my site and am getting tired of doing a Yahoo! search and then copying and pasting the url and title in my data entry form for each search result I want to add.

What I'd rather do is somehow capture the search results (say limited to 30) and then parse into a table. Each result would have it's own row. After clicking the hyperlink, if I decided to add the link, I would check a checkbox. I would then add a button at the end of the page that would "bulk-add" the links selected.

I do this with an Amazon api and it works great. Unfortunately I don't know how to get the result set to parse from a Google or Yahoo search.

Any tips...greatly appreciated.

[ncracraf]

I haven't found a readily apparent way to include this functionality in php. I'm sure there is but timelines dictate...

However, I found a very useful tool that gives you a list of internet sites that match your keywords. They also provide the keywords those sites use. The useful part ('cause up to know you're probably thinking...Google?) is you can export the results into a comma-delimited file.

I wrote a simple function in php to upload and parse the contents of the file and post each row as a link.

I won't plug the tool here - if you want the name, just pm me.