Google Suggest API example

gsuggest.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding:utf-8

import pprint
import requests
from lxml import etree
from argparse import ArgumentParser
import sys


def main():
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('query', nargs='?', help='query string')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    qstr = unicode(args.query, sys.stdout.encoding)

    r = requests.get('http://www.google.com/complete/search', params={'q':qstr, 'hl':'ja', 'ie':'utf_8', 'oe':'utf_8', 'output': 'toolbar'})

    root = etree.XML(r.text)
    sugs = root.xpath('//suggestion')
    sugstrs = [s.get('data') for s in sugs]

    for ss in sugstrs:
        print(ss)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()