Automated Google Search Script for Profile Links

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📅 2024-07-12 — Session: Automated Google Search Script for Profile Links

🕒 19:50–20:10
🏷️ Labels: Python, Web Scraping, Automation, Google Search, CSV
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The primary goal of this session was to develop and refine a Python script that automates Google searches to retrieve profile links from a CSV file.

Key Activities

  • Developed a Python script utilizing libraries such as requests, BeautifulSoup, and googlesearch-python to automate Google searches for profile links.
  • Corrected a keyword argument in the google_search function, changing num to num_results to comply with the googlesearch-python library.
  • Updated the google_search function by removing the pause argument and implementing sleep_interval for request delays.
  • Managed Google search usage limits by considering potential IP bans and legal issues, and explored solutions like using official APIs, rate limiting, and proxies.
  • Created a script to structure profile links in a DataFrame and save them to a CSV file.
  • Set up a rotating proxy pool for web scraping to ensure ethical compliance and avoid IP bans.

Achievements

  • Successfully automated the process of retrieving and structuring profile links from a CSV file using Python.
  • Implemented error corrections and updates to enhance script functionality and compliance.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the proxy pool setup to ensure reliability and compliance with Google’s terms of service.

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