[Pygoogle-discuss] Installation questions

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

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?

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?

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?

Thank you,
Mitch Hoffman