indroid-python-requests

During an interview with Indroid, the technical interview was a homework. The original email was quite intimidating, "1. make a function that accepts a string and returns the Google-results using python and the results-module. 2. make a function that accepts a string and returns the google results using python and selenium. Selenium controls a browser and uses Firefox as default."

One of the first things I did was re-arrange the two part assignment into smaller pieces for better google-a-bility (yes, it's a word):

1. Make a function
   • accepts a string
   • returns the Google-results
   • use Python and the requests-module
2. make a function
   • accepts a string
   • returns the Google results
   • use Python and Selenium
     • which controls a browser (default: Firefox).

requests-simple.py

Scrape Google search results with the requests python module.

Dependencies

• python 2.7

Installation

```shell pip install requests git clone https://github.com/rainsdance/indroid-python-requests cd indroid-python-requests ```

Use

```shell python requests-simple.py ```

Script prompts for a string (What would you like to search for?) and then an integer (How many results would you like to see?) and returns the unformatted google results.

selenium-complex.py

Scrape Google search results with Selenium based on https://github.com/DanMcInerney/search-google

Dependencies

• python 2.7
• Selenium

Installation

```shell pip install selenium git clone https://github.com/rainsdance/indroid-python-requests cd indroid-python-requests ```

Use

```shell python selenium-complex.py -s "foo bar test" ```

Will open the firefox browser, search for "foo bar test" on google.com and return one page of ten results with the title and url of each result.