Re: [Pygoogle-discuss] Installation questions

[Mitchell H. <mh8...@gm...>]

Hello,

I emailed about how to install PyGoogle several months back.  For a while, I
found another way to do my programming task, but as Google resists many of
my crawler requests, I think I may have to use PyGoogle.

Right now, I am trying to run the basic code below to see if I've installed
PyGoogle correctly:

import google
google.LICENSE_KEY = '[the key that I got from Google]'
data = google.doGoogleSearch('python')

and I keep getting the error

faultType: <Fault SOAP-ENV:Server: Exception from service object: Invalid
authorization key:  '[the key I got from Google]'

Yet, I'm positive I didn't enter my google key incorrectly.  I went to the
Google Base Data API page, where it says 'your key is [the key I got from
Google]' and 'This key is good for all URLs in this domain:
http://www.google.com.'

I'm thinking maybe I again may not have install PyGoogle correctly.  Here is
what I did:

1.  Downloaded the Zip file of PyGoogle from Source Forge and saved it on my
desktop
2.  Copied and pasted the PyGoogle folder into my Python25 directory where I
also have my file GoogleKey.txt
3.  Typed 'python python setup.py install' so that several compiled python
files (with a black shadow instead of no shadow for normal .py files) like
google.pyc and googlesoapfacade.pyc were added to my Python25 directory.

Is there anything I did incorrectly, or anything additional I need to do to
install PyGoogle?

Finally, if I wanted to get the number of webpages linking to a particular
domain name (say YouTube.com) from Google, that is, the information you get
when you type 'link:YouTube.com' in the Google search bar, is this something
I can do with PyGoogle?

Thank you very much,
Mitch



On Jul 17, 2007 1:42 AM, Chris Spencer <chr...@gm...> wrote:

> On 7/17/07, Mitchell Hoffman <mh8...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am brand new to PyGoogle and Python in general.  I am trying to write
> a
> > spider to retrieve the number of results from a simple search engine
> query
> > (have the search engine search for all the terms in a column of an Excel
> > spreadsheet and then return the number of results for each term).
> >
> > I tried looking on http://www.google.com/apis/ to find googlekey.txt,
> but
> > couldn't find it.  Does anyone know where it is?
>
> The file googlekey.txt is something you have to create. In your Google
> account  there's a link somewhere (Google for it) reading something
> like "email me my Google Key". Click that, copy the key from the
> email, and save it to that text file.
>
> > Second, to install PyGoogle, I ran Setup.py from IDLE in my Python25
> drive.
> >  Then I opened another IDLE window and typed  'import google' and I got
> > error saying the google module could not be found.  So I manually copied
> the
> > four py files in PyGoogle ( Google.py, GoogleSoapFacade.py,
> Googletest.py,
> > and SOAP.py) into my Python 25.  Now, after running SOAP.py, I am able
> to do
> > 'import google' without an error.  Did I successfully install PyGoogle?
>  Is
> > this the right way to install PyGoogle or will I experience problems
> later?
>
> In general, you'll want to run setup.py from a command line, in the
> form "python setup.py install" to install packages. It might have
> worked from IDLE if you have run it with the "install" argument, but
> it's easier to simply use the command line.
>
> > Third, is PyGoogle necessary to simply scrape the number of results?
>  Will
> > simpler tools like UrlLib2 and UrlLib2 work for, or will Google
> resist/block
> > them?
>
>
> If you're not doing large numbers of queries, you can get away with
> urllib. Otherwise, Google will probably block you. After all, that is
> why they provide an API.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>