java - easiest (legal) way to programmatically get the google search result count? -

i want estimated result count google search engine queries (on whole web) using java code.

i need few queries per day, @ first google web search api, though deprecated, seemed enough (see e.g. how can search google programmatically java api). turned out, numbers returned api different returned www.google.com (see e.g. http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=32). these numbers pretty useless me.

i tried google custom search engine, exhibits same problem.

what think simplest solution task?

/**** @author rajesh kharche */ //open netbeans //choose java->prject //name googlesearchapp  package googlesearchapp;  import java.io.*; import java.net.*; import java.util.*; import java.util.logging.level; import java.util.logging.logger;  public class googlesearchapp {     public static void main(string[] args) {         try {             // todo code application logic here              final int result;              scanner s1=new scanner(system.in);             string str;             system.out.println("enter query search: ");//get query search             str=s1.next();             result=getresultscount(str);              system.out.println("results:"+ result);         } catch (ioexception ex) {             logger.getlogger(googlesearchapp.class.getname()).log(level.severe, null, ex);         }           }      private static int getresultscount(final string query) throws ioexception {         final url url;         url = new url("https://www.google.com/search?q=" + urlencoder.encode(query, "utf-8"));         final urlconnection connection = url.openconnection();          connection.setconnecttimeout(60000);         connection.setreadtimeout(60000);         connection.addrequestproperty("user-agent", "google chrome/36");//put browser name/version          final scanner reader = new scanner(connection.getinputstream(), "utf-8");  //scanning buffer object returned http request          while(reader.hasnextline()){   //for each line in buffer             final string line = reader.nextline();              if(!line.contains("\"resultstats\">"))//line line scanning "resultstats" field because want extract number after                 continue;              try{                         return integer.parseint(line.split("\"resultstats\">")[1].split("<")[0].replaceall("[^\\d]", ""));//finally extract number convert string integer             }finally{                 reader.close();             }         }         reader.close();         return 0;     } }