irfanalidv / googlesearchr

GoogleSearchR is an R package that provides functions to query Google and extract information from search results.

GoogleSearchR

GoogleSearchR is an R package that provides functions to query Google and extract information from search results. With this package, you can easily extract data from Google search results and integrate it into your R workflow. Try it out today and see how it can improve your productivity!

Installation

You can install this package using the devtools package:

devtools::install_github("irfanalidv/GoogleSearchR")

Usage

library(GoogleSearchR)

# Example usage
df <- data.frame(
  Organization_Name = c("Walmart", "First Republic Bank", "Netflix", "Amazon", "Snap", "Comcast", "Apple"),
  Headquarters_Location = c("Bentonville, Arkansas, United States", "San Francisco, California, United States", "Los Gatos, California, United States", "Seattle, Washington, United States", "Venice, California, United States", "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States", "Cupertino, California, United States")
)

df$concat_cols <- concat_cols(df, "Organization_Name", "Headquarters_Location", sep = " + ")
df$website  <- sapply(df$concat_cols, get_first_google_link)

Functions

get_first_google_link(name, root = TRUE)

This function takes a search term name and returns the first Google search result link.

Arguments:

• name: The search term to query Google.
• root: A boolean indicating whether to return the root domain of the link.

concat_cols(df, col1, col2, sep = "+")

This function concatenates two columns of a data frame with a user-defined separator.

Arguments:

• df: The data frame containing the columns to concatenate.
• col1: The name of the first column to concatenate.
• col2: The name of the second column to concatenate.
• sep: The separator to use between the two columns.

Dependencies

This package depends on the following R packages:

• curl
• remotes
• utils
• urltools
• rvest
• dplyr
• xml2