Write the shortest function that returns the content of the first result of a Google search ("I'm feeling lucky").
Example:
lucky('cat');
Might return something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Cats are cool</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>CAAAAAAAAAAATSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!</h1>
<p>
Cats are so cool!
</p>
</body>
</html>
l()(wget -UM -qO- "gogle.de/search?btnI&q=$1")
Uses the actual I'm feeling lucky feature, just like the other answers.
Gogle blacklists some user agents (including WGet's, cURL's and Java's), but M seems to work just fine.
gogle.de even exist?
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googl.de would work as well.
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gogle.com exists too. Unfortunatly googl.co.uk redirects to a dodgy ad site.
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Commented
Oct 19, 2014 at 7:30
I borrowed the btnI trick from @rink.attendant.6 for this solution. Thanks Beta Decay for shortening it by 2 characters.
require'open-uri'
f=->q{URI(URI.escape"http://gogle.de/search?btnI&q="+q).read}
I also have a solution which actually gets the first result from the results page, which is 145 bytes.
require'open-uri'
f=->q{open(URI.extract(URI(URI.escape"http://google.com/search?q=#{q}").read.split('class="r"')[1])[0].split("&")[0]).read}
file_get_contents<?php function l($q){return file_get_contents("https://google.ca/search?btnI&q=".rawurlencode($q));}
Without allowing for spaces in the search term it's only 87 characters:
<?php function l($q){return file_get_contents("https://google.ca/search?q=$q&btnI");}
I suppose that short array syntax can be used on PHP 5.4+:
<?php function l($q){$ch=curl_init("https://google.ca/search?btnI=1&q=".rawurlencode($q));curl_setopt_array($ch,[19913=>1,52=>1]);return curl_exec($ch);}
Otherwise it's five more characters with the normal array initializer, 162:
<?php function l($q){$ch=curl_init("https://google.ca/search?btnI=1&q=".rawurlencode($q));curl_setopt_array($ch,[19913=>1,52=>1]);return curl_exec($ch);}
Version that does not allow spaces in the search term: No need for URL encoding (138):
<?php function l($q){$ch=curl_init("https://google.ca/search?q=$q&btnI=1");curl_setopt_array($ch,[19913=>1,52=>1]);return curl_exec($ch);}
<?php
function l($q){
$ch = curl_init("https://google.ca/search?btnI=1&q=" . rawurlencode($q));
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1
));
return curl_exec($ch);
}
"https://google.ca/search?q=".rawurlencode($q)."&btnI=1" with "http://google.ca/search?btnI=1&q=".rawurlencode($q)
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Commented
Oct 13, 2014 at 23:00
btnI=1 with btnI.
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Commented
Oct 19, 2014 at 8:48
This is my first time ever writing code in C# so it could probably use improvement. Feedback is welcome!
string l(string q){return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString((new System.Net.WebClient()).DownloadData("https://google.ca/search?btnI&q="+System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(q)));}
string l(string q) {
return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(
(new System.Net.WebClient()).DownloadData(
"https://google.ca/search?btnI&q=" + System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(q)
)
);
}
Thought, I'll finally give the g method a try
{"gogle.de/search?btnI&q="\S/"%20"*+g}:F
This creates a method/block F which can be used like
{"gogle.de/search?btnI&q="\S/"%20"*+g}:F; "cats and dogs"F
This is how functions work in CJam ..
Doesn't work in online interpreter, so you will have to download and use the Java one.
Note that Google denies all requests with Java user agent, so you will have to start CJam with an additional flag -Dhttp.agent=M
-Dhttp.agent=M to the Java interpreter.
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Uses gogle.de for brevity. Run as f(query).
f=lambda x:__import__("requests").get("http://gogle.de/search?btnI&q="+x).text
If you want to have spaces in your query it's 98 characters.
f=lambda x:__import__("requests").get("http://gogle.de/search?btnI&q="+x.replace(" "," %20")).text
