How can I web scrape Google search results using BeautifulSoup? My code does't print output. Is it a problem with the 'LinkDictionary' ?
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib, urllib2
def google_scrape(query):
request = urllib2.Request(address, None, {'User-Agent':'Mosilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11'})
urlfile = urllib2.urlopen(request)
page = urlfile.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
linkdictionary = {}
for li in soup.findAll('li', attrs={'class':'g'}):
sLink = li.find('a')
print sLink['href']
sSpan = li.find('span', attrs={'class':'st'})
print sSpan
return linkdictionary
if __name__ == '__main__':
links = google_scrape('beautifulsoup')