How to get the number of Google search result using PHP?

Question

I am trying hard to find a way to get the number of Google search results using PHP? I have search Google and stackoverflow but have not found anything suitable.

I want to know how can I do this using PHP.

Answer 1

When not using APIs:

$content = file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/search?q=test');
preg_match('/<div class="sd" id="resultStats">.*?([0-9\.\,]+).*?<\/div>/', $content, $matches);

var_dump($matches[1]);

Although i would advise against this way of (automated) queries.

Answer 2

you can parse google search page. in the return page, there has number of google search result . such as, when we search stackoverflow in google search box, these text will appear under google search box: About 34,800,000 results (0.79 seconds)