google.py

from urllib2 import *
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class Googleit(HTMLParser):
    """
    Simple Python API to google. Returns a single numbered result from a search string.
    Usage:
    
    result = Googleit(term, number)
    """
    def __init__(self, search, resnum):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
        self.search = search.replace('','+') # Thanks s3r1al :)
        self.resnum = resnum
        self.links = []
    
        req = Request('http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=' + self.search)
        req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1')
        r = urlopen(req)
        html = r.read()
        self.feed(html)
        self.result = self.links[18:][self.resnum-1]
        
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'a' and attrs:
            if attrs[0][0] == 'href':
                if attrs[0][1][:4] == 'http':
                    self.links.append(attrs[0][1])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    search_term = "let me google that for you"
    resnum = 3
    result = Googleit(search_term, resnum)
    print result.result