MSN/LIVE API Scraper Script

This script will allow you to connect to the MSN/LIVE API service and grab results. The benefits over scraping the standard search engine result pages are that you won’t get banned for hitting it too hard in a short period of time and it’s a bit faster because you’re purely getting the results and no pretty html code.

The main problem I had with the LIVE Search API was that they rely on SOAP and I’d much rather use php cURL functions! After searching around to see if anyone had managed to do this I eventually gave up and just sat down and worked out how to do it myself.. turns out it wasn’t that hard

So download and test it out I did also make a multi_curl script which uses this but for some reason the LIVE API server would randomly decide to provide xml data with no actual search results in!

I recommend reading the “Read Me” file before asking any questions. You will need to get an application ID from the MSN Developer website and put this in config.php.

Download:� MSN Live API Scraper