Thread: query Google in Java

Hi guys,

I am not really sure whether this is the right place for my question and forgive me if it is not but I am a newbie.
I am trying to figure out a way to send a query to Google search engine through my Java application and then get the results and present the links to the user. I am not looking for a code or anything like this. I just need a clue what to use in order to accomplish what I want. I did so much research but I am still confused.
Any suggestions are welcomed. I will be very thankful if you can give me links to tutorials or other helpful staff.

If I find anything relevant that I think is interesting, I will contribute to the thread as well as there aren't many up to date ones.

Originally Posted by copeg

See Lesson: Working with URLs (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking)

You should also read google's terms of use...in particular:

Hi copeg,

Thanks for your reply.
I tried that but the thing is that it is showing the HTML code and I want to see the actual links displayed as they are in the browser. Any ideas how I can do that?

I want to see the actual links displayed as they are in the browser

And then what? Why not just show them in a browser by using java.util.ProcessBuilder to run something like "firefox http://google.com/search?q=java"?

Originally Posted by Sean4u

And then what? Why not just show them in a browser by using java.util.ProcessBuilder to run something like "firefox http://google.com/search?q=java"?

It's a good suggestion but I don't want to open it in a browser. What I want is to have like an additional panel to my application that has the first 5 links suggested by Google. At the moment I am trying to use Google Custom Search API but since I have never been working with it I am having trouble using it. There aren't any samples provided or at least I couldn't find any useful. Have you ever used it? Do you have any idea where I can take a look for example codes or something similar??