Google Grabber — Using PHP to Find Out How Many Pages Your Domain Has Listed in Google
Most bloggers make an effort to get as many pages listed on Google as possible. Benefits of being listed in Google may include:
- Increased blog visits
- Increased ad clicks
- Broadened visitors / audience
- Increased article comments
- Increased referral revenues
Using a short amount of PHP code, you can query Google to retrieve the number of pages your domain has listed in Google.
The Code
/* return result number */
function get_google_results($domain = 'davidwalsh.name')
{
// get the result content
$content = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/search?q=site:'.$domain);
// parse to get results
$result = get_match('/Results <b>(.*)from/isU',$content);
// split the results
$split1 = explode('of about',$result);
// return result
return $split1[1] ? strip_tags($split1[1]) : 0;
}
/* helper: does the regex */
function get_match($regex,$content)
{
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);
return $matches[1];
}
The Usage
/* do it! */
echo 'davidwalsh.name: '.get_google_results('davidwalsh.name'); // 164
echo 'digg.com: '.get_google_results('digg.com'); // 3,790,000
echo 'google.com: '.get_google_results('google.com'); // 19,300,000
echo 'cnn.com: '.get_google_results('cnn.com'); // 2,180,000
echo 'imdb.com: '.get_google_results('imdb.com'); // 19,000,000
echo 'dzone.com: '.get_google_results('dzone.com'); // 484,000
echo 'fark.com: '.get_google_results('fark.com'); // 7,390
echo 'some-domain-that-doesnt-exist.com: '.get_google_results('some-domain-that-doesnt-exist'); // 0
Or, you could just register your site with Google Webmaster tools at: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools.
True. I’m not a big fan of Google’s Webmaster Tools. Plus, with my grabber, I can loop through all 100+ customer domains and get the information quicker than navigating through GWT.
Hi, David,
I don’t know much about php, but your codes seems very usefull, can you tell me how do I put this in action?
thanks.
I definitely love you … ^^ … thats a quick way :-).
Hi, David,
How do i put it in action please?
thank you.
Just a quick one as I stumbled over this whilst looking around…
You do realise that this may count as using the Google servers/services in an automated fashion – which would be against G’s Terms of Service?
This script does not work again. Google as change their result format. PLEASE, update.
To get it WORKING again:
change the last three lines with these:
// parse to get results
$result = get_match(‘/About (.*) results/i’,$content);
// split the results
$split1 = explode(‘ ‘,$result);
// return result
return $split1[0] ? strip_tags($split1[0]) : 0;
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I can get result if i give any url.
But i want to search links so i am passing link:digg.com.
How to get that number ?
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