Google custom search API

notes

API for custom searches from Google…. and a method to spoof the “custom” part of it…

https://code.google.com/apis/console/

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/getting_started

Use this method to build a custom search which searches the whole web…

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4082966/google-web-search-api-deprecated-what-now

Here is an example of a search using this method with curl – note the API-KEY is removed. You will need to get an API key (see above).

curl "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API-KEY&cx=012117491442732664551:egvalbpelhq&q=lectures"