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Multiple search engine search retrieval and storage: Need a engine to query different search engines

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Multiple search engine search retrieval and storage

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Picture of Rodger B Fluke MPA by Rodger B Fluke MPA - 8 years ago (2016-07-28)

Need a engine to query different search engines

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I have a site and directory of generic medical equipment planning.

I need to explore multiple search engines for information and URLs on relevant medical equipment such as chemistry analyzers and surgical tables.

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  • 1. Picture of Manuel Lemos by Manuel Lemos - 8 years ago (2016-07-31) Reply

    There are good classes for searching on Google. Any other search engine that you want to explore?

    • 2. Picture of Rodger B Fluke MPA by Rodger B Fluke MPA - 8 years ago (2016-07-31) in reply to comment 1 by Manuel Lemos Comment

      I have done a lot of manual searches and the results from duckduckgo has a higher quality of responses for my application. All of the others seem have a boat load of waste and ads.

      Rodger

    • 3. Picture of Manuel Lemos by Manuel Lemos - 8 years ago (2016-07-31) in reply to comment 2 by Rodger B Fluke MPA Comment

      Well most solutions perform API calls to Google.

      For now there is no solution for DuckDuckGo there is an API but I am not sure if it provides their direct search results like Google.

      Maybe somebody can come up with a solution based on DuckDuckGo too. That would be an innovative package.

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DuckDuckGo PHP API client: Search for data and related topics from DuckDuckGo

This package can search for data and related topics from DuckDuckGo.

It can send HTTP requests to the DuckDuckGo API Web server to perform search queries.

The class retrieves and parses the results that can be traversed to get the result texts and URLs.
This recommendation solves the problem.
This recommendation does not solve the problem.

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Picture of Maik Greubel by Maik Greubel package author package author Reputation 185 - 7 years ago (2017-08-31) Comment

Hello,

you can try this package to create dedicated search requests to duckduckgo.

PHP HTTP protocol client: HTTP client to access Web site pages

Class that implements requests to Web resources using the HTTP protocol.

It features:

- May submit HTTP requests with any method, to any page, to any server, connecting to any port.
- Provides support to setup connection and request arguments from a given URL.
- May submit requests via a proxy server with support for authentication if necessary.
- May establish connections via a SOCKS server.
- Supports HTTP direct access or proxy based authentication mechanisms via SASL class library like HTTP Basic, HTTP Digest or NTLM (Windows or Samba).
- Support secure connections (https) via Curl library with SSL support, or at least PHP 4.3.0 with OpenSSL support, or via a non-SSL HTTP proxy server.
- Supports accessing secure pages using SSL certificates and private keys using Curl library
- Supports user defined request headers.
- Supports POST requests with a user defined array of form values.
- Supports POST requests with a user defined request bodies for instance for making requests to SOAP services.
- Supports streaming requests that require uploading large amounts of data of undefined length in small chunks to avoid exceeding PHP memory limits
- Supports requests to sites hosting virtual Web servers.
- Retrieves the HTTP response headers and body data separately.
- Support HTTP 1.1 chunked content encoding
- Supports session and persistent cookies.
- Provides optional handling of redirected pages.
- Supports defining connection and data transfer timeout values.
- Can output connection debug information in plain text or formatted as HTML.
- An add-on class is provided to login to Yahoo sites and perform actions on the behalf of the logged users like exporting the user address book or sending invitation to a group.
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Picture of Melanie Wehowski by Melanie Wehowski Reputation 135 - 8 years ago (2016-08-01) Comment

I would suggest the http client class to build a web-crawler client/metacrawler.

Further, I have worked out a more complex answer, please read my related article: web+fan://frdl.webfan.de/how-to-build-your-own-topic-specific-search-engine.293.html

PHP Google Custom Search API: Search for keywords using Google Custom Search API

This class can search for keywords using Google Custom Search API.

It can send HTTP requests to the Google Custom Site Search API Web server to search for given keywords. All search API parameters can be configured.

The class returns an object with the decoded search results.
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Picture of Manuel Lemos by Manuel Lemos Reputation 26695 - 8 years ago (2016-07-31) Comment

This package can perform searches with the official Google API in a way that Google accepts. It has a limit of searches for free.

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