Introduction

PeterDrayton? made a command line tool in C#? for .NET? called Google2RSS. It uses the GoogleApi to grab the top 10 results for a given query, and produces an RSS feed from the results.

This a reimplementation of that tool in Perl as a simple URL-based (REST?) web service.

News & Status

Thinking of doing this with PHP

-- LesOrchard - 02 May 2002

First working version. ShareAndEnjoy.

-- LesOrchard - 15 Apr 2002

Downloads

• http://www.decafbad.com/downloads/google_rss_cgi.txt

Documentation

You may either download the script from my site, or use it directly as a service at http://www.decafbad.com/web-services/url-based/google_rss.cgi.

The script takes the following form parameters:

• query - Terms with which to make the search
  • Default: "google apis"
• key - GoogleApi key obtained at service sign-up
  • Default: 0xDECAFBAD key, please don't abuse it
  • You may not trust me, but I'm not gathering keys.
• title - Title of the RSS feed
  • Default: "Google APIs"
• link - Link used in the RSS feed
  • Default: "http://www.google.com/apis"
• description - Description for the RSS feed
  • Default: "Top 10 Google hits for Google APIs"
• webmaster - Email address for owner of RSS feed
  • Default: "deus_x\@pobox.com"
• rss_version - RSS format version which should be produced
  • Default: "1.0"
• cache_age - Minimum seconds between performing the search
  • Default: "3600"

The script returns an RSS document like so (as displayed by RssDisplay):

            http://www.decafbad.com/web-services/url-based/google_rss.cgi
            
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185