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Scraping Google Local Business Results

Hey zero, Do you have a method to scrape google local business results and see where a listing appears in a) the 7-pack or b) the full listings for certain search terms? WP (from here)

Get Google SERP and preg match local business results with

$page = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+pizza');
 
preg_match_all(
    '@<h4[^>]*class=r[^>]*>\s*<a\s*href="(.*)".*class=l.*title="(.*)".*>@siU',
    $page,
    $matches);
 
print_r($matches[1]); // urls
print_r($matches[2]); // titles

new-york-pizza-google-local-business-results

Then preg match regular listings (I hope regex works) and go through both $matches, local and regular.

HTH

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  1. serial number
    October 12th, 2009 - 13:26

    what is the use of scarping business results? Share us some secret trick behind that :)

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  2. Kris Malena
    October 13th, 2009 - 04:50

    If you are scraping for search results it should be easy to figure out.

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  3. Jayakumar
    October 18th, 2009 - 18:09

    Nice to see your blog about make money

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  4. Hire Service Professionals
    October 18th, 2009 - 20:12

    Why is scraping necessary? Please post more info about it. Thanks!

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  5. ATV Auction
    October 20th, 2009 - 00:51

    Scraping local business results would be a good idea if you are doing seo for any company who cares about local business rankings. There could also be other reasons for this. It would be a good way for an seo company to find potential clients.

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  6. used tires
    October 20th, 2009 - 04:33

    Interesting code, looking at it, it would seem to need a little bit more before it becomes automated? Just by looking at the first line in the code, it seems to be kinda of manual search inputs at the moment. But I could be wrong… still though… it’s a great start for the person who requested it.

    Till then,

    Jean

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  7. Andre Colt
    December 14th, 2009 - 09:17

    What is the importance of scrape google local business results?How does it reflect to your site and Affect to the SEO?Can anyone provide valuable information about the codes?

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  8. John Ward
    March 2nd, 2010 - 00:54

    If you can’t find the use of this script then move on. I found a pretty decent use for it though ;) thanks.

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  9. winalot
    July 5th, 2010 - 20:05

    Hi Zero,

    Any way of extending this so can pull back the maps url as well?

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  10. winalot
    July 13th, 2010 - 13:39

    Thanks Zero, good to hear you’re still in the game! WP

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