google-search-url

Parse, sanitize and craft any Google Search URL

Getting started

npm i google-search-url -D

yarn add google-search-url -D

Usage

const gsearch = require('google-search-url');

const input =  {
        location: 'Florida,New York,United States', // canonical name from google's allowed list
        query: ['site:linkedin.com', '"CEO"', 'bank'], // can be a simple string too
        num: 100,
        page: 1,
        shuffle: true, // shuffles query when array as well as queryparams order
        signature: false // wether to include a unique signature for the url (won't matter if shuffled or not)
    }

gsearch.craft(input).url
// > http://google.com/search?num=100&cr=countryUS&hl=en&start=0&lr=lang_en&q=%22CEO%22+site%3Alinkedin.com+bank&uule=w%2BCAIQICIeRmxvcmlkYSxOZXcgWW9yayxVbml0ZWQgU3RhdGVz

gsearch.craft(input).url
// > http://google.com/search?start=0&lr=lang_en&cr=countryUS&num=100&uule=w%2BCAIQICIeRmxvcmlkYSxOZXcgWW9yayxVbml0ZWQgU3RhdGVz&q=site%3Alinkedin.com+%22CEO%22+bank&hl=en

gsearch.craft(input).url
// > http://google.com/search?q=bank+site%3Alinkedin.com+%22CEO%22&lr=lang_en&cr=countryUS&num=100&start=0&uule=w%2BCAIQICIeRmxvcmlkYSxOZXcgWW9yayxVbml0ZWQgU3RhdGVz&hl=en

Running the build

All the different build steps are orchestrated via npm scripts. Npm scripts basically allow us to call (and chain) terminal commands via npm.

| Npm Script | Description | | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | test | Run tests using jest |

Eslint rules

Eslint is a code linter that helps catch minor code quality and style issues. All rules are configured through .eslintrc.

Data sources

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/reference/rest/v1/cse/list?hl=ko https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/json_api_reference?hl=ko#supported-interface-languages