Question

i want to get the 10 google search results links (href) using mechanize so i wrote this code, but the code does not return the right google search results, what should i write?

    @searchword = params[:q]
    @sitesurl = Array.new
    agent = Mechanize.new
    page = agent.get("http://www.google.com")
    search_form = page.form_with(:name => "f")
    search_form.field_with(:name => "q").value = @searchword.to_s 
    search_results = agent.submit(search_form)
    count = 0
    c = 0
    while  c < 10
    if (search_results/"li")[count].attributes['class'].to_s == "g knavi"
      site = (search_results/"li")[count]
      code = (site/"a")[0].attributes['href']
      @sitesurl << code
      c += 1
    end
    count += 1
end

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

@searchword = params[:q]
@sitesurl = Array.new
agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.get("http://www.google.com")
search_form = page.form_with(:name => "f")
search_form.field_with(:name => "q").value = @searchword.to_s     
search_results = agent.submit(search_form)

(search_results/"li.g").each do |result|
  @sitesurl << (result/"a").first.attribute('href') if result.attribute('class').to_s == 'g knavi'
end