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Automated googling with given search term and returning result links
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| import selenium.webdriver as webdriver | |
| from time import sleep | |
| def get_results(search_term): | |
| MAX_LINKS = 2 # Set the maximum number of links to gather | |
| # Use google to search the search term | |
| url = "https://www.google.com" | |
| browser = webdriver.Chrome() | |
| browser.get(url) | |
| search_bx = browser.find_element_by_class_name('gsfi') | |
| search_bx.send_keys(search_term) | |
| search_bx.submit() | |
| try: | |
| # links = browser.find_elements_by_class_name('//rc/r') | |
| links = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//div//h3//a') | |
| except: | |
| print("error") | |
| results = [] | |
| # retrieves first two links | |
| for link in links[0:MAX_LINKS]: | |
| # href = link.get_attribute('r') | |
| href = link.get_attribute('href') | |
| results.append(href) | |
| browser.close() | |
| return results |
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