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by vasilakisfil 1535 days ago
nice! I use that quite often, so it might come handy. Quick question, how did you build that ? Does Google provide any sort of API or did you build a web scraper for that ?
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If you look at the source you can see they literally launch a chrome instance in a lambda and google your query with site:reddit.com prefixed
while idk how that was built, there are a few options on doing same:

- scraping, probably against TOU - api -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/ - same, except embed -> https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/

context - we use all of those plus Bing, etc. for https://breezethat.com