simple_web_search.js

const axios = require('axios');
const cheerio = require('cheerio');

async function performSearch(query, limit = 3) {
  try {
    const url = `https://www.google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(query)}&num=${limit}`;
    const headers = {
      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
    };

    const response = await axios.get(url, { headers });
    const $ = cheerio.load(response.data);
    const results = [];

    $('div.g').each((i, element) => {
      if (i >= limit) return false;

      const titleElement = $(element).find('h3');
      const linkElement = $(element).find('a');
      const snippetElement = $(element).find('.VwiC3b'); 

      if (titleElement.length && linkElement.length) {
        const title = titleElement.text().trim();
        const url = linkElement.attr('href');
        const description = snippetElement.text().trim() || 'No description available';

        if (url && url.startsWith('http')) {
          results.push({ title, url, description });
        }
      }
    });

    return JSON.stringify(results);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Search error:', error.message);
    return JSON.stringify({ error: error.message });
  }
}


const query = process.argv[2];
const limit = process.argv[3] ? parseInt(process.argv[3]) : 3;

if (!query) {
  console.error('Please provide a search query');
  process.exit(1);
}

performSearch(query, limit).then(results => {
  console.log(results);
});