Hack 82 Syndicating Google Search Results
 
Converting Google results to RSS suitable for
syndication or incorporation into your own web site.
RSS is an XML-based syndication format used by web sites to provide
abstracts of their content for open-ended syndication. RSS-syndicated
content is incorporated into web sites, aggregated by news services,
and consumed by RSS news readers similar in form to the Usenet
newsreaders of old.
This hack converts sets of Google search results to RSS format for
syndication. The C# .NET source code and full instructions are
available at http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html.
82.1 Running the Hack
Google2RSS is a command-line utility. To run it,
you'll need to have a Windows machine with the .NET
Framework installed. If you want to compile it from source yourself,
you'll need to have the .NET Framework SDK too. It
accepts a multitude of command-line switches, all of which are
documented on the Google2RSS site.
Here's a sample run of Google2RSS, a SafeSearch
query Google API :
google2rss.exe -key "12BuCK13mY5h0E/34KN0cK@ttH3Do0R" -query "Google API" -
safesearch true -filter true -title "Tracking the Google API" -link http://
www.example.com/API -description "Tracking the Google API Mentions in
Google" -webMaster info@example.com -outfile "googleapi.rss"
This will produce an RSS document fit for consumption by any number
of RSS tools, applications, and services. Drop it into your web
server's document directory and announce its
whereabouts so that others may use it. Incorporate it into your own
web page using any number of tools.
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