Chapter 13: Understanding the Google Web APIs

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Creating an automatic translation Web form
Understanding clients and servers
Understanding Web services
Figuring out what you can do with the Google APIs
Knowing the Google Web API limitations

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Requesting a Search

To request a search you use the doGoogleSearch API. This is far and away the most important of the APIs. In addition to your developer key, doGoogleSearch expects you to include a specific search query. The search query consists of keywords and operators for the most part like the ones you use in a manual search query (as explained in Chapters 4 and 5)

You can use just about any keyword or operator with this API that you can use in a manual Google query. However, a few operators, such as the Google phonebook: operators, cannot be used in an automated query.

For the full details of which operators can go into an automated query, see the Google Web APIs Reference.

The syntax of a call to doGoogleSearch looks more or less like this:

result = doGoogleSearch(key, query, start, maxResults, filter, restrict, safesearch, lr, ie, oe)

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