There are probably better ways, but here's one example I pulled from something else I wrote.
This relies on Google's JSON API. You'll need to read about how to set that up.
apikey = '12345'; % your API key
cx = '12345'; % your search engine ID
query = 'delicious spiders'; % the search query
wopt = weboptions('contenttype','json');
url = ['https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?cx=' cx '&key=' apikey '&q=' query '&num=10'];
try
S = webread(url,wopt);
catch
% this might also happen if no exact url exist and API call is broken somehow
fprintf('Connection error. Web search failed.\n')
return;
end
Your results will be in the struct S.
Considering that getting relevant results from search engines is often difficult to impossible, I would posit that there is no such thing as a reliable option, regardless of how consistently they might execute without overt error.
