google search api key? not found anywhere

abdoue · 09-10-2009, 05:47 AM

Hello warriors

I'm working on a project using c# that needs to scrap search results from google after looking a lot in their documentation i can't find how to get their search api key

Can you help me get it please ?

mywebwork · 09-10-2009, 05:54 AM

Hi abdoue

If you are referring to the Search Key API you must be looking at an older coding sample, Google stopped giving these out a couple of years ago.

Google Discontinues The Free Google Search API Key - Is It Gone Forever?

They do have an API key for their AJAX Search API, you can get it here:

Sign-up for an AJAX Search API Key - Google AJAX Search API - Google Code

Hope this helps

Bill

abdoue · 09-10-2009, 05:59 AM

Oh Bill thank you for your quick response

actually yes the source code that i'm learning from is a bit old so i need to llok for some new samples

after taking a first look to ajax search api i don't see how desktop programmers can pull search data to their application because they are mentioning only web sites

but i'll try to look harder about the topic

thank you you are awesome

All the best
Abdoue

KirkMcD · 09-10-2009, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abdoue

after taking a first look to ajax search api i don't see how desktop programmers can pull search data to their application

I'll save you the trouble, it can't.

You might want to take a look at the Yahoo Search API instead. There is also the Bing Search API.

TristanPerry · 09-10-2009, 02:06 PM

You can always just run a HTTP request and get the results from Google as normal?

Just remember that Google looks at the user agent. So fake a user agent, something standard like:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

And you shouldn't get a 403 error from Google. That's what I do. It's the only way (from the sounds of what you are saying) to achieve what you want.

warrich · 09-22-2009, 01:49 PM

Google has stopped giving google soap api , you can try google custom search inplace of that

09-10-2009, 05:47 AM	#1
abdoue Internet Marketing 007 War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 288 Thanks: 70 Thanked 292 Times in 81 Posts	google search api key? not found anywhere Hello warriors I'm working on a project using c# that needs to scrap search results from google after looking a lot in their documentation i can't find how to get their search api key Can you help me get it please ?

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mywebwork Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA & Montreal Canada Posts: 2,218 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 759 Thanked 724 Times in 505 Posts	Re: google search api key? not found anywhere Hi abdoue If you are referring to the Search Key API you must be looking at an older coding sample, Google stopped giving these out a couple of years ago. Google Discontinues The Free Google Search API Key - Is It Gone Forever? They do have an API key for their AJAX Search API, you can get it here: Sign-up for an AJAX Search API Key - Google AJAX Search API - Google Code Hope this helps Bill

09-10-2009, 05:59 AM	#3
abdoue Internet Marketing 007 War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 288 Thanks: 70 Thanked 292 Times in 81 Posts	Re: google search api key? not found anywhere Oh Bill thank you for your quick response actually yes the source code that i'm learning from is a bit old so i need to llok for some new samples after taking a first look to ajax search api i don't see how desktop programmers can pull search data to their application because they are mentioning only web sites but i'll try to look harder about the topic thank you you are awesome All the best Abdoue

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TristanPerry Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom Posts: 772 Thanks: 171 Thanked 147 Times in 103 Posts Social Networking	Re: google search api key? not found anywhere You can always just run a HTTP request and get the results from Google as normal? Just remember that Google looks at the user agent. So fake a user agent, something standard like: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 And you shouldn't get a 403 error from Google. That's what I do. It's the only way (from the sounds of what you are saying) to achieve what you want.
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warrich Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 653 Thanks: 2 Thanked 27 Times in 24 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: google search api key? not found anywhere Google has stopped giving google soap api , you can try google custom search inplace of that
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