elm.web.google_search.PlaywrightGoogleLinkSearch

class PlaywrightGoogleLinkSearch(**launch_kwargs)[source]

Bases: object

Search for top results on google and return their links

Purpose:

Search Google using Playwright engine.

Responsibilities:

  1. Launch browser using Playwright and navigate to Google.

  2. Submit a query to Google Search.

  3. Get list of resulting URLs.

Key Relationships:

Relies on Playwright for web access.

Parameters:

**launch_kwargs – Keyword arguments to be passed to playwright.chromium.launch. For example, you can pass headless=False, slow_mo=50 for a visualization of the search.

Methods

results(*queries[, num_results])

Retrieve links for the first num_results of each query.

Attributes

EXPECTED_RESULTS_PER_PAGE

Number of results displayed per Google page.
EXPECTED_RESULTS_PER_PAGE = 10

Number of results displayed per Google page.

async results(*queries, num_results=10)[source]

Retrieve links for the first num_results of each query.

This function executes a google search for each input query and returns a list of links corresponding to the top num_results.

Parameters:

num_results (int, optional) – Number of top results to retrieve for each query. Note that this value can never exceed the number of results per page (typically 10). If you pass in a larger value, it will be reduced to the number of results per page. By default, 10.

Returns:

list – List equal to the length of the input queries, where each entry is another list containing the top num_results links.