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 Dependencies

Development

~> 1.7
~> 10.0

Runtime

 Project Readme

GoogleCompanySearch

A google scrape tool to provide a URL by searching for a company name

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'google_company_search'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install google_company_search

Usage

require 'google_company_search'

GoogleCompanySearch.search("Boeing") #returns "http://www.boeing.com/"
GoogleCompanySearch.search("My Company Name Here", "St. Louis, Missouri")

Todo: The blacklist could be made into a YML file. Or something else outside code.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/creativereason/google_company_search/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request