Get MREIDs from Google SERPs

⚠ Disclaimer

This software is not authorized by Google and doesn't follow Google's robots.txt. Scraping without Google explicit written permission is a violation of thei terms and conditions on scraping and can potentially cause a lawsuit

Requirements

Local Environment

• NodeJS (https://nodejs.org/de/)

NPM-Packages

• Puppeteer (https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer)
• Minimist (https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimist)

Installation

1. Download latest project release, extract and (if desired) move folder to your home directory
2. Check if Node and NPM are already installed

• Open Terminal
• Type node -v in Terminal to check NodeJS version number (and if installed already)
• Type npm -v in Terminal to check NPM-Manager version number (and if installed already)
• If not, install Homebrew (from https://brew.sh/index_de; Mac) and then NodeJS with brew update && brew install node

3. In Terminal move to project folder (type cd folder/ if you named the project folder "folder")
4. Install required NPM packages, type npm install in Terminal

Usage

Run script with arguments

• npm run scrape -- --kw=<KEYWORD> (--headless=false)
• node get_mreids.js --kw=<KEYWORD> (--headless=false)

Examples

• npm run scrape -- --kw=firefox --headless=false
• node get_mreids.js --kw=firefox --headless=false
• npm run scrape -- --kw=barack+obama
• node get_mreids.js --kw=barack+obama

What happens here

• Puppeteer (Headless Browser; Chromium) opens first SERP with input keyword
• We extract MREID if available and look for "Über XX weitere ansehen" link in Knowledge-Graph
• We click that link and get a carousel of entities on next SERP
• We extract urls and names of entities from carousel
• We open each url in new tab, wait for load-event and extract MREID
• We close Browser and export list to CSV / Terminal

Help & Information

• If something breaks or errors occur during runtime, please ask Philipp at hello@jpigla.de.
• Please use https://knowledgegraphsearch.com/ for ultimate verification of MREID

Changelog

22.10.2019 (1.1.3, 1.2.3)

• Fix Xpath for carousel extraction
• Add argument for headless (optional)

16.10.2019 (1.1.2)

• Fix Xpath for carousel extraction

11.10.2019 (1.1.1)

• Enhance extraction of MREID from SERP (some entity SERPs show MREID differently, now catch 'em all!)

04.10.2019 (1.0.1)

• Fix extraction of MREID from SERP (different approach because of layout change in SERP)

02.10.2019 (1.0)

• Initial Upload
• Functional version

License

All assets and code are under the GPL v3 License unless specified otherwise.