Scrape Google Available On Results with Python

Contents: intro, imports, what will be scraped, process, code, links, outro.

Intro

This blog post is a continuation of Google's web scraping series. Here you'll see examples on how to scrape Available On search results using Python BaeutifulSoup, Requests, and lxml libraries. An alternative API solution will be shown.

Imports

import requests, lxml
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from serpapi import GoogleSearch

What will be scraped

Process

The following GIF shows the process of selecting Name, Link, and Price CSS selectors using SelectorGadget Chrome extension.

Code

import requests, lxml
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

headers = {
    "User-Agent":
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19582"
}

params = {
    "q": "spider man watch online",
    "hl": "en",
    "gl": "us",
}

html = requests.get("https://www.google.com/search", params=params, headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.text, 'lxml')

for result in soup.select('.JkUS4b'):
    name = result.select_one('.i3LlFf').text
    link = result['href']
    price = result.select_one('.V8xno').text
    print(f'{name}\n{link}\n{price}\n')


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'''
Hulu
https://www.hulu.com/watch/f82b95f5-13da-4acd-b378-7d3f6864919f
Premium subscription

Sling TV
https://watch.sling.com/1/program/ada829bcd452424d936dfd39a66a3f5e/watch?trackingid=google-feed
Premium subscription
...
'''

Using Google Available On Results API

SerpApi is a paid API with a free trial of 5,000 searches.

import json # just for pretty output
from serpapi import GoogleSearch

params = {
  "api_key": "API_KEY",
  "engine": "google",
  "q": "spider man watch online",
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en", # country to use for the Google search
}

search = GoogleSearch(params)
results = search.get_dict()

for results in results['available_on']:
    print(json.dumps(results, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

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'''
{
  "name": "Hulu",
  "link": "https://www.hulu.com/watch/f82b95f5-13da-4acd-b378-7d3f6864919f",
  "price": "Premium subscription",
  "thumbnail": "https://serpapi.com/searches/60ded28817f923a90145853c/images/c4dcca5efe0b92c0095874b9b1935aa7b3c0b903ab87dba3b1f2d3dea0f89733.png"
}
...
'''

Outro

If you have any questions or something isn't working correctly or you want to write something else, feel free to drop a comment in the comment section or via Twitter at @serp_api.

Yours,
Dimitry, and the rest of SerpApi Team.