The pricing regarding CSE is a little bit vague:
For CSE users, the API provides 100 search queries per day for free. If you need more, you may sign up for billing in the API Console. Additional requests cost $5 per 1000 queries, up to 10k queries per day
Does one query equal one keyword regardless of pagination used, or one request? (in this sense XML is more efficient than JSON, as it allows 20 in num parameter, as opposed to JSONs 10)
Are the queries counted per API key, or per cx key?
It is vague and you are not the first to be puzzled. When I did my research I found this blog post helpful.
Assume you are talking about Custom Search Engine (terms you noted in your Q) and NOT Google Site Search (paid from the start). The reason I ask is that the XML function is only for Google Site Search customers. There is the JSON/Atom API and Custom Search API available for CSE.
For Q1, one Query = one request. You can use as many keywords or other parameters in your request (see comments in the blog post I referenced), but you will always be limited to 100 results.
For Q2, the billing is enabled through the API console. Once enabled (and in order to allow the 101st query) your code must include both your cx and API key. So in theory you could set up multiple search engines within your API and stay under the 100 request limit, but I have not seen a way to allow an API to support multiple cx keys.
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Here is what I have:
Project in Google API (Translate API)
Billing Enabled
Upgraded Quota limit up to 10 000 000 chars per day
One server key
Many sites, which use this key to translate text
And here is the problem: it seems our sites request more texts for translations than we expect and we can't find which of the sites sends so many texts. We have looked at our sites and found nothing. We want to determine translations requests volume by each site or module.
I can see overall usage and quota usage in API Manager. But there is no information about IP / domain name input to the overall usage. Is it possible to see translations usage by site / API usage / other parameter.
I have some ideas and questions. First, I can create a unique API key for each site/module so each site will use its own key. But it seems it is not possible to see translations usage by keys within one project.
The second idea was about adding parameter in URL like user_id. That method was mentioned in API docs but, again, I can't see how to generate translations usage by a certain parameter.
Could you please advise?
Context
I am in the process of providing some consultancy on doing a HTTP GET using YouTube Data API V3; in order to develop a Windows based application to GET a list of results from Youtube, for say a specific CATEGORY, or a specific TAG.
We are open to using any programming language(I'm from a C++ background and am hoping You tube will support direct HTTP connections without using Google client SDK and so on) to connect to YouTube and (HTTP) GET data.(Once a month or so, so YouTube API quotas should not be problem).
The Issue
We are being told by some of my client's web developers that YouTube API v3 will only return a maximum of 500 records/results, for say a query that returns JUST the Total viewers, the Video's link, and basic meta data such as that.
S, say I wish to find 5,000 results for category "House music" or "basketball" - and I have the Developer Key etc are all set up, would that be possible?
If so, what GET fields would I need to populate(such as "max_results_per_page")?
Thank you.
The API won't provide more than ~500 search results for any arbitrary query. It's by design. Technically, it means that the nextPageToken field won't be returned once you hit ~500 results. No additional parameter can change that.
If you want more than ~500 results for a query, you have to split it into more specific sub-queries. I'd suggest using the publishedAfter and publishedBefore parameters to achieve that, but feel free to experiment with the other ones here.
This only holds for the search-Query. Other queries like "PlaylisItem:list" deliver more results. I have tested with 100.000 items to get the videos of a playlist.
Is this API simply for searching your website only, or can any standard google search (even advanced search features) be submitted to it? I understand there is a limit of 100 per day, I am just curious if it can be invoked from say your own machine as the code samples and introduction indicate its intended use is for displaying results on your website. I want to search outside of a given domain and scrape standard google results for any given search. This will not be an ajax call.
My current understanding:
You're limited to 100/day only if you don't pay.
You do have to specify domains, but some tlds are fine (eg: .uk)
There's a limit to 100 search results for any given search query (ten pages of up to ten responses)
It can be invoked from your own machine.
I want to know the page rank for certain key words against my page. For example I wrote "best movies 2012" my page does come, but in 30th to 50th page. I want to query in the result set Google gave against my keywords so that I can see the rank of my page and my competitors against typical keywords.
I think you may be confusing PageRank with positions. PageRank is an algorithm that Google uses to determine the authority of your site. This doesn't always affect the positions of certain keywords.
There are plenty of good programs and web services around that you can use such as
http://raventools.com/
Most of the good free web services have been closed down due to Google now limiting the amount of searches performed and charging for this data.
You could check out:
http://www.semrush.com
It's free but you have to register to get data.
There are several web services providing this functionality: http://raventools.com/ or http://seomoz.org/
Or, you can perform the task manually. Here is an example on how to query google search using Java: How can you search Google Programmatically Java API
You need to compare your webpage PageRank and website PR against those of the competition. The best indication we have of website PR is the HomePage PagRank.
Ensure that you do this for the appropriate Google domain - USA - Google.com - UK Google.co.uk etc
The technique is described in more detail on http://www.keywordseopro.com
You can repeat the technique for each keyword.
After many tests, I've been unable to get the Twitter Search API to return more than 80% of tweets containing a specific keyword or hashtag. This is not related to the maximum number of results, one test involved a hashtag which had been tweeted 50 times and only 15 of them were returned by the Twitter Search API. The same results were returned when using Twitter's own search tool.
Is the Twitter Search API simply a tool for getting estimates and trends, rather than accurate data?
Has anyone found a way to capture 100% of tweets containing a specific keyword or hashtag?
Twitter filters search api for better results. Here is a quote from developer site:
Both the Streaming API and the Search
API filter, and on some end-points,
discard, statuses created by a small
proportion of accounts based upon
status quality metrics. For example,
frequent and repetitious status
updates may, in some instances, and in
combination with other metrics, result
in a different status quality score
for a given account.
Search api simply returns a subset of the found tweets.