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To all programmers: How much would/should it cost to make?

by iva
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A few days ago I started this thread:

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"Google suggestion box extraction tool"

Wonder if anyone came across a software that enables extract all possible variations of queries from the Google suggestion box. Might be quite useful for a niche selection process. Thanks.
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but got no replies. Maybe it does not exist. I wonder how much one would charge to create this tool. For example I would type "How *" (where * - any letter) and it would return all the entries from the suggestion box. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author michael_gourlay
    This probably isn't incredibly complicated to do. Google must be sending an XMLHttpRequest back to the server to get the list. You'd have to intercept that to find the URL that it is calling, then you could formulate your own request and parse the response. The thing is that when I type into google's search box, it only gives me 4 suggestions and I'd imagine that's all you'd get back for each letter.
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    • Profile picture of the author sdcoder
      It's *really* easy to get that data, the only problem being that there is no officially supported google API for doing so. There's a simple back-door way to get it... but one day you might wake up and it won't work any more. Yahoo has an official service that does much the same thing, so you could fall back on that. Not sure about Bing, though...
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  • Profile picture of the author aaron_nimocks
    There's plenty of tools "like" this so far.

    For instance

    Free Google Keyword Suggestion Tool

    and it comes with source code

    Google Suggest Scraper Tool Source Code

    So to have it to what you want wouldnt be too much more work. But I bet that you cant submit that many queries that fast until Google puts you in a timeout.
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