I'd like to programmatically query intenet for a number of keys, say "key1 key2 key3" and get the number of hits. Any browser will do.

How do I do this ?

Thank you

Peppe
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I'd like to programmatically query intenet for a number of keys, say "key1 key2 key3" and get the number of hits. Any browser will do. How do I do this ?

Use fpHttpClient and do a standard HTTP request? No browser needed. (http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fphttpclient)

R.

CreateProcess - invoke a browser with parameters,
or ShellExecute with appropriate URL - should invoke default browser on most os'es...

Thank you Peppe

HTH

-L.

Reimar Grabowski wrote

Use fpHttpClient and do a standard HTTP request? No browser needed.

Indeed. And the URL syntax for Google would be:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=XYZ

Where XYZ is your search term. Then simply parse the resulting page and extract the info you need.

And here is the syntax for DuckDuckGo:
HTML5 + Javascript version:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=XYZ
Plain HTML version:
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=XYZ

Regards,
- Graeme -