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google search api key? not found anywhere

by abdoue
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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 ?
#api #found #google #key #search
  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author abdoue
    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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    • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
      Originally Posted by abdoue View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    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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  • Profile picture of the author warrich
    Google has stopped giving google soap api , you can try google custom search inplace of that
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