Scraping Google Suggestions with PHP

keywords.php

<?php

/*
 * This script was created by James Jeffery for use in the following video: https://youtu.be/KNMTmiZQPZU
 * This script is completely free - as in free beer :)
 */

if (!isset($argv[1]) || empty($argv[1])) {
  exit ("You must provide a keyword");
}

$url = "https://www.google.com/complete/search?";
$query = http_build_query([
  "client" => "psy-ab",
  "q" => $argv[1]
]);

$ch = curl_init($url . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if (!$response) {
  exit("No results found");
}

$results = json_decode($response, true);

if (!$results || !isset($results[1]) || !count($results[1])) {
  exit("No results found");
}

/*
 * You can store the keywords in an array if required
 */
$keywords = array_map(function($result) {
  return strip_tags($result[0]);
}, $results[1]);

/*
 * Or dump them to STDOUT
 */
foreach($keywords as $keyword) {
  print($keyword . PHP_EOL);
}