Command Line Google Search

google_search.py

import urllib2
import json
import textwrap

def google_search(search_string):
	google= 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search'
	
	msg = urllib2.quote(search_string)
	soc = urllib2.urlopen('{google}/web?v=1.0&q={msg}'.format(google=google, msg=msg))
	text = soc.read()
	model = json.loads(text)
	
	if model['responseStatus'] != 200:
		raise urllib2.HTTPError(model['responseDetails'])
		
	return model['responseData']['results']
	
def unhtml(strn):
	strn = strn.replace(''',"'")
	strn = strn.replace('"','"')
	strn = strn.replace('<b>', '')
	strn = strn.replace('</b>', '')
	
	strn = strn.replace('&gt', '>')
	strn = strn.replace('&lt', '<')
	
	return strn
	
def print_result(result):

	title = unhtml(result['titleNoFormatting'])
	print title
	print '=' * len(title)
	print str(result['url'])
	print '-' * len(title)
	text = unhtml(result['content'])
	print '\n'.join(textwrap.wrap(text, len(title) + 10))
	print 


if __name__ == '__main__':
	
	import argparse
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument('search_string')
	
	args = parser.parse_args()
	results = google_search(args.search_string)

	for result in results:
		print_result(result)