Download Tool & Google

[SaoriYamguchi]

I'd like to do a Google search using Alteryx's download tool. How can I do it?

[BrandonB · Accepted solution]

The official Google Search API endpoint was deprecated by Google around 2010 I believe and therefore isn’t queryable via a traditional download tool. You could alternately use a different company’s search API or use the Python tool and something like Selenium to control a browser and then scrape the resulting page. 

[SaoriYamguchi]

Thank you.
I tried using the download tool with the URL containing the search word instead of using the API, but it didn't work so I would like to use the Python tool to solve the problem.

[BrandonB]

This is a helpful article that covers the process of using Selenium via Alteryx to control a web browser and pass values into dynamic pages: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Python-Code-Tool-Web-Scraping-Dynamic-...