wrong start value coming in the search url

[lmahesh5]

The search url for page 1 and 2 is coming fine, but from 3rd page the start value becomes huge. For example, page 1 : https://www.google.co.in/search?q=buy+watches&uule=w+CAIQICIHQ2hlbm5haQ&gws_rd=cr page 2 : https://www.google.co.in/search?q=buy+watches&start=10&uule=w+CAIQICIHQ2hlbm5haQ&gws_rd=cr page 3 : https://www.google.co.in/search?q=buy+watches&start=200&num=100&uule=w+CAIQICIHQ2hlbm5haQ&gws_rd=cr Here page 3 start value should be 20, but it shows 200. My inputs are page 1, results 10 / page 2, results 10 / page 3, results 100. So, ideally the 3rd url should be start=20&num=100

[gsouf]

Hi @lmahesh5

Did you set 100 results per pages? In your example with third page you have num=100 that means that for page 3 start = 200

Can you confirm that?

[lmahesh5]

Hi @gsouf I have set the page number and number of results per page as below for 3 iterations. (1) Page no : 1, number of results per page 10 (2) Page no : 2, number of results per page 10 (3) Page no : 3, number of results per page 100.

The purpose is to get page 1 with 1 to 10 results and page 2 with 11 to 20 results and page 3 with 21 to 120 results.

[gsouf]

@lmahesh5 that's the expected behavior of GoogleUrl::setPage. It automically sets the page according to the number of results per page. In your case it sets the third page for 100 results per page. What you have to do to workaround it is to use setParam to manually set the start parameter of the url:

$url->setResultsPerPage(100);
$url->setParam('start', 30);

[lmahesh5]

ok @gsouf thanks