websearchr (version 0.0.1)

google.hits: Obtain number of Google hits

Description

Quickly get a grasp of how much a search term or a combination of search terms are searched for on google.

Inspired by this discussion on Stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30199157/r-google-search-result-count-retrieve

Usage

google.hits(search.terms)

Arguments

search.terms

Search terms encapsulated in "".

Examples

# NOT RUN {
google.hits("my search terms")

# Your Search URL:
# https://www.google.com/search?q=my%20search%20terms

# No. of Hits:
# [1] 117000000
# }