Scout Plugins

Returns the total number of entries for each of the provided search terms. Separate multiple terms with a “,”.

For example, to return the total number of entries for each of these two terms:

- Bill Clinton
- George Bush

Specify this as the term: “Bill Clinton”, “George Bush”

Which return 2 fields in the report:

Bill Clinton: 854,554,545
George Bush: 765,345,434

If you want all results that match those terms:

Term: “Bill Clinton” OR “George Bush”

Total Entries: 854,554,545 + 765,345,434

Code (and inspiration) taken and updated from:

http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2005/12/10/why-does-the-google-search-api-suck/

Dependencies

Requires the following libraries:

require ‘net/http’
require ‘hpricot’
require ‘cgi’