web-search/search.py

#Web Search
#Developed by              : PythonCoder8
#Requires Pip installation : pip install google
#Description               : Search web for query and retrieve a selected amount of URLs
#Python version            : Major = 3
#Only tested with 3.8.5

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from time import time
from googlesearch import search
import sys
import webbrowser

search_query = input('What do you want to search for on the web?: ')
result_num = input('How many results do you want to retrieve from the web?: ')

try:
    int_result_num = int(result_num)
except:
    sys.exit('The number of results you wanted to retrieve was not a number. Exiting program...')

print('The top %d results from the web are:' %(int_result_num))

start = time()
for url in search(search_query, tld='com', stop=int_result_num):
    print(url)
end = time()

print('Found %d results from the web in %s' %(int_result_num, end - start) + ' seconds.')
open_in_browser = input('Do you want to open the given URLs in your web browser (Y/N)? ')

if open_in_browser.upper() == 'Y':
    for url in search(search_query, tld='com', stop=int_result_num):
        webbrowser.open(url)

elif open_in_browser.upper() == 'N':
    sys.exit('Ok! Bye!')

else:
    while open_in_browser.upper() != 'Y' and open_in_browser.upper() != 'N':
        open_in_browser = input('Invalid response! Do you want to open the given URLs in your web browser (Y/N)? ')

        if open_in_browser.upper() == 'Y':
            for url in search(search_query, tld='com', stop=int_result_num):
                webbrowser.open(url)

        elif open_in_browser.upper() == 'N':
            sys.exit('Ok! Bye!')