Google-serp NPM

Google-serp

Scrape Google search results using Phobetor and Nightmare.js

How to use it?

// yarn add google-serp
const googleSerp = require("google-serp")
const serpResults = googleSerp({
  query:"Led Zeppelin"
}).then(console.log)

Output:

{
  type:"result",
  payload:[
    {
      url:"https://ledzeppelin.com",
      title: "Homepage of one rock and blues legend",
      description:"Led Zeppelin is not a misic you will easily forget",
      position: 1
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Typing

type SerpResult = {
  url: String,
  title: String,
  description: String,
  position: Number,
}

type Result = {
  payload:Array<SerpResult> | Error,
  type: "result" | "error"
}

googleSerp({
  query: String,
  showHundredFlag?: Boolean,
  show?: Boolean,
}): Promise<Result>

If there is an error during scraping, the library will return Object with type equal to "error" and the error as a payload. If process is successful, the library will return Object with type equal to "result" and array of results as payload .

Arguments

query

Google search query

scrapeHundredFlag

If set to true, it will request 100 search result instead of 10
Default value - false

show

If set to true, it will show the browser
Default value - false

Requirements

Electron compatible environment, i.e. either system with graphic interface or you need to use xvfb. In the latter case you need to do something like that https://gist.github.com/omarusman/1af968d9b96fc5b0cd39599db3f2b9bd