Comments on: Using Google Search API from Java

By: vira

vira — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:21:02 +0000

hi there!

the code for ajax I provided here is very basic: it just prints Google response to console and query is statically defined . I’d recommend you to use my wrapper located here. In that post I placed an example of using Googler class. Currently, it doesn’t support API key, but this functionality could be easily added – just specify API key as value of “key” HTTP request parameter.

BTW I’m going to add this some other functionality to the Googler in the distant future.

By: leo

leo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:29 +0000

hi,

can u pls tell me how to run the code for ajax api? i got a ajax api key as required..

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:57 +0000

How to parse?

I want to get the same search number by using API as the real google search. Is there any java code example?

2 Damian

google ajax api and real google have different results (and mau be different index base).
For example yandex.xml api and yandex.ru have different indexes (index yandex.xml more new).

So, if you whant real google.com result – parse it

By: Damian

Damian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:04:56 +0000

Thank you

By: vira

vira — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:03:17 +0000

@Damian
You just need to set corresponding system property
e.g. System.setProperty(”http.agent”, “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; ru-ru) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1″);

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:24:55 +0000

But Google sends back 503 (Forbidden).
I heard that I have to send Http-Agent header, but I don’t know how to send it. Do you?

By: @ver

@ver — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:41:35 +0000

2 Damian

google ajax api and real google have different results (and mau be different index base).
For example yandex.xml api and yandex.ru have different indexes (index yandex.xml more new).

So, if you whant real google.com result – parse it

By: Damian

Damian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:17:48 +0000

I get different results using Google.com and your code. Do you know the default preferences of ajax.googleapis.com?
What I want to get is to obtain the same result with your code and google.com search.

By: vira

vira — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:12:23 +0000

kulpster,

Checked this example again and it doesn’t works anymore Try to use this url “http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=query_str” . It’s much simpler and works for me. It returns 4 result at a time, to get next 4 use “start” parameter.

BTW, according to google docs api key is optional for now. If you provide key and some error occurs while searching Google can help work it out

By: kulpster

kulpster — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:52:36 +0000

Vira,

Can you explain the endpointURL string? I am trying to use my own google api key in the string but I am getting this back:

{”responseData”: null, “responseDetails”: “invalid version”, “responseStatus”: 400}

thanks.