Googling

Hi

Summary: Is there an easy method to search Google and get the top
result (title & URL)?

I'm trying to write a script that gets URLs based on a name. I figured
using Google would be the simplest method. I need to search a specific
site, and can construct a query so that the top result is often enough
the correct result.

However, Net::Google requires a SOAP API key, and Google's site says
they are no longer providing new keys. I thought I might be able to
use WWW::Mechanizer, but the HTML that Google returns is fairly ugly
and I haven't tried parsing that just yet.

Is there an easy method to search Google and get the top result (title & URL)?
.

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