RosettaCodeData/Task/Yahoo--search-interface/R/yahoo--search-interface.r
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YahooSearch <- function(query, page=1, .opts=list(), ignoreMarkUpErrors=TRUE)
{
if(!require(RCurl) || !require(XML))
{
stop("Could not load required packages")
}
# Replace " " with "%20", etc
query <- curlEscape(query)
# Retrieve page
b <- 10*(page-1)+1
theurl <- paste("http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=",
query, "&b=", b, sep="")
webpage <- getURL(theurl, .opts=.opts)
# Save search for nextpage function
.Search <- list(query=query, page=page, .opts=.opts,
ignoreMarkUpErrors=ignoreMarkUpErrors)
assign(".Search", .Search, envir=globalenv())
# Parse HTML; retrieve results block
webpage <- readLines(tc <- textConnection(webpage)); close(tc)
if(ignoreMarkUpErrors)
{
pagetree <- htmlTreeParse(webpage, error=function(...){})
} else
{
pagetree <- htmlTreeParse(webpage)
}
findbyattr <- function(x, id, type="id")
{
ids <- sapply(x, function(x) x$attributes[type])
x[ids==id]
}
body <- pagetree$children$html$children$body
bd <- findbyattr(body$children$div$children, "bd")
left <- findbyattr(bd$div$children$div$children, "left")
web <- findbyattr(left$div$children$div$children, "web")
resol <- web$div$children$ol
#Get url, title, content from results
gettextfromnode <- function(x)
{
un <- unlist(x$children)
paste(un[grep("value", names(un))], collapse=" ")
}
n <- length(resol)
results <- list()
length(results) <- n
for(i in 1:n)
{
mainlink <- resol[[i]]$children$div$children[1]$div$children$h3$children$a
url <- mainlink$attributes["href"]
title <- gettextfromnode(mainlink)
contenttext <- findbyattr(resol[[i]]$children$div$children[2], "abstr", type="class")
if(length(contenttext)==0)
{
contenttext <- findbyattr(resol[[i]]$children$div$children[2]$div$children$div$children,
"sm-abs", type="class")
}
content <- gettextfromnode(contenttext$div)
results[[i]] <- list(url=url, title=title, content=content)
}
names(results) <- as.character(seq(b, b+n-1))
results
}
nextpage <- function()
{
if(exists(".Search", envir=globalenv()))
{
.Search <- get(".Search", envir=globalenv())
.Search$page <- .Search$page + 1L
do.call(YahooSearch, .Search)
} else
{
message("No search has been performed yet")
}
}
#Usage
YahooSearch("rosetta code")
nextpage()