Practice Web Scraping 101 : SERP

What are we going to scrap?

In this project, we will build a simple web scraper to scrap google search results, also known as SERP.

Used Tool :

In this project I tried to use different tools to build this scraper :

• SelectorGadget, we talked in deep about it in this article.

• The Chrome Developer Tools, we discuss in depth how to use in this article.

Library used :

we used Selenium to build our scraper because it's very popular and can be used to automate processes such as writing in the search box and performing the action of searching. However, we talked about it too in this article.

The Project :

I write the code with =comment to explain the code.

Well let's get right to it :

# Import the neccesary moduls 

from selenium import webdriver 
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

the web driver is basically what will make it possible to automate the browser.

We will find elements by css selector, the possible way to do it is by using the By

from the selenium library.

# get the Google url :

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

driver.get("https://www.google.com/?hl=fr")

Then we create a variable driver, which the variable that controls our browser, the last line of code tells the browser to open the given url .

# Get the box search 

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
Search = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'input.gLFyf')

We find the element using it's CSS selector it's an input field with the class ".gLFyf".

# Let's search about "cute animals" and click On the button search :

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
Search.send_keys("cute animals" + Keys.ENTER)

The Search is the variable that we stored our box search in it, and hence what the line of code means is to write "cute animals" in the box search and the part Keys.ENTER means perform the action of search

# Get all the link's title  from the first page :


links_Title  = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.DKV0Md')

for link in links_Title :
    # Print all the links :
    print(link.text.strip())

Finally, we get all the link's title from the search page which is 9 in total, using CSS selector to find that element on the page then we print each link.

The Full Code :

Here is the full code :

# Import the neccesary moduls 

from selenium import webdriver 
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

# get the Google url :

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

driver.get("https://www.google.com/?hl=fr")

# Get the box search 

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
Search = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'input.gLFyf')

# Let's search about cute animals and click On the button search :

driver.implicitly_wait(10)
Search.send_keys("cute animals" + Keys.ENTER)

# Get all the link's title  from the first page :


links_Title  = driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.DKV0Md')

for link in links_Title :
    # Print all the links :
    print(link.text.strip())