google-search-api

Is there a way to programmatically access Google’s search engine results? [closed]

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After finding this question I have been researching as the other answers seem out of date. The Google search API would be the obvious choice as quoted by other users however it is now been deprecated in favour of Custom Search API. Although not obvious at first the Custom Search API does allow you to … Read more

Google Search from a Python App

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There’s a simple example here (peculiarly missing some quotes;-). Most of what you’ll see on the web is Python interfaces to the old, discontinued SOAP API — the example I’m pointing to uses the newer and supported AJAX API, that’s definitely the one you want!-) Edit: here’s a more complete Python 2.6 example with all … Read more

Google’s “define: ” through an API?

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I wish I had not set a bounty for this, because I stumbled upon the answer a few days later and it is really simple. Here is URL to call if you want a definition to love: http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=a&sl=en&tl=en&q=love You will get a response stream containing JSONP, with the following contents (“prettified” for learning purposes, API … Read more

Hash of a cell text in Google Spreadsheet

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Open Tools > Script Editor then paste the following code: function MD5 (input) { var rawHash = Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, input); var txtHash=””; for (i = 0; i < rawHash.length; i++) { var hashVal = rawHash[i]; if (hashVal < 0) { hashVal += 256; } if (hashVal.toString(16).length == 1) { txtHash += ‘0’; } txtHash += hashVal.toString(16); … Read more

Google Search autocomplete API?

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The new url is: http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=YOURQUERY the client part is required; I did’t test other clients. [EDIT] If you want the callback use this: http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=YOURQUERY&callback=callback As @Quandary found out; the callback does not work with client “firefox”. [EDIT2] As indicated by @ user2067021 this api will stop working as of 10-08-2015: Update on the Autocomplete API

How can you search Google Programmatically Java API [closed]

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Some facts: Google offers a public search webservice API which returns JSON: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web. Documentation here Java offers java.net.URL and java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests. JSON can in Java be converted to a fullworthy Javabean object using an arbitrary Java JSON API. One of the best is Google Gson. Now do the math: public … Read more