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Google Search VBOs

JessicaSprong — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:57:47 GMT

Hi all!

So I've been working on a VBO to search in Google and pull the search result titles and links. I've been running into some issues with Google's antibot code and was wondering if anyone had found a way around that?

Is there a Google Search VBO out there already?

Any tips or tricks to help with maneuvering through Google Search and Blue Prism?

Thanks so much,

Jess

Re: Google Search VBOs

IsmoLehtiniemi — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 08:50:52 GMT

I believe Google's user agreement forbids all kinds of web scraping.

You could use Google's custom search API for example, but it has some limitations if you want to use it for free.

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

Re: Google Search VBOs

krishna.kodimurali9 — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 12:03:34 GMT

looking forward to it.

Re: Google Search VBOs

EVIPUTI — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:53:56 GMT

You can use google developer API's to achieve all the operations on google platform .
https://developers.google.com/custom-search

Re: Google Search VBOs

JessicaSprong — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:48:12 GMT

Thanks all for your responses.

A year later, I'm still looking into the best way to do this.

I know that there are Blue Prism connectors for Google APIs, but I couldn't find one for the Custom Search API. How would I go about connecting the Custom Search API to Blue Prism?

Thanks,

Jess