I am working on building a REST API based connector to a marketplace which uses sitecore. I have found the documentation for using the search API command here:
https://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/65/sitecore_search_and_indexing_sc60-65-a4.pdf
I have been unable to figure out how to use it to search for content that is grouped into a navigation category, and was unsure if there was a good way to do this. I did not design the site, and the designers were contractors who are no longer working with us.
I would like to be able to find a list of items based on a specific navigation category that has been assigned to them. I have tried getting the children of the category ID itself, but that did not work. Here is a picture of the navigation category associated with a given object in case it adds clarification:
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Is there an easy way to search for items like this?
Going with the assumption that you are on 7.2 or above, you just need to search for items that have the ID of the Navigation Categorization field (in your index as navigation_categorization) that are set to the ID of the item you wish to filter on. In your image, it would be the ID of "connectivity services" item.
var context = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("master").CreateSearchContext();
var computedLanguage = Sitecore.Context.Language.CultureInfo.Name;
// get the iBuild items
var results = context.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem>()
.Where(i => i["navigation_categorization"].Contains([connectivity services ID])
&& i.Language == computedLanguage)
.GetResults()
.Hits.Select(x => x.Document.GetItem(
));
I am using google image search API. Till yesterday it was working, but today morning it says "This API is no longer available"
Is it officially closed, Or any error at my side
Request
https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&rsz=8&q=cute+kittens
Response
{"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403}
The answer I found was using Google's Custom Search Engine (CSE) API. Note that this is limited to 100 free requests per day.
Creating cx and modifying it to search for images
Create custom search engine at https://cse.google.com/cse/create/new based on your search criteria.
Choose sites to search (leave this blank if you want to search the entire web, otherwise you can enter a site to search in one particular site)
Enter a name and a language for your search engine.
Click "create." You can now find cx in your browser URL.
Under "Modify your search engine," click the "Control Panel" button. In the "edit" section you will find an "Image Search" label with an ON/OFF button, change it to ON. Click "update" to save your changes.
Conducting a search with the API
The API endpoint url is https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1
The following JSON parameters are used for this API:
q: specifies search text
num: specifies number of results. Requires an integer value between 1 and 10 (inclusive)
start: the "offset" for the results, which result the search should start at. Requires an integer value between 1 and 101.
imgSize: the size of the image. I used "medium"
searchType: must be set to "image"
filetype: specifies the file type for the image. I used `"jpg", but you can leave this out if file extension doesn't matter to you.
key: an API key, obtained from https://console.developers.google.com/
cx: the custom search engine ID from the previous section
Simply make a GET request by passing above parameters as JSON to the API endpoint (also listed above).
Note: If you set a list of referrers in the search engine settings, visiting the URL via your browser will likely not work. You will need to make an AJAX call (or the equivalent from another language) from a server specified in this list. It will work for only the referrers which were specified in the configuration settings.
Reference:
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/reference/cse/list
Now You can search images with Custom image search API.
You can do this with two steps:
Get CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID
Go to - https://cse.google.ru/cse/all
Here you must create new Search Engine. Do this and enable Image Search at there.
Screen(i am Russian... sorry)
then get this search engine ID. To do this press at Get Code button:
And there find line with cx = "here will be your CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID":
Ok. It's done, now second step:
Get SERVER_KEY
Go to google Console - https://console.developers.google.com/project
Press to Create project button, enter the name and other required information.
Pick this project and go to Enable Apis
Now find Custom Search Engine.
And Enable it.
Now we must go to Credentials and create new Server Key:
Ok. Now we can use Image Search.
Query:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=SERVER_KEY&cx=CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID&q=flower&searchType=image&fileType=jpg&imgSize=xlarge&alt=json
Replace the SERVER_KEY and CUSTOM_SEARCH_ID and call this request.
Limit: for free you can search only 100 images per day.
If this is just for your own purposes (not for production) and you're not planning to abuse Google Image Search, you can simply extract first image URL from Google search results using JSOUP.
For example:
Code to retrieve image URL of the first thumbnail:
public static String FindImage(String question, String ua) {
String finRes = "";
try {
String googleUrl = "https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=" + question.replace(",", "");
Document doc1 = Jsoup.connect(googleUrl).userAgent(ua).timeout(10 * 1000).get();
Element media = doc1.select("[data-src]").first();
String finUrl = media.attr("abs:data-src");
finRes= "<img src=\"" + finUrl.replace(""", "") + "\" border=1/>";
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
return finRes;
}
Guide:
question - image search term
ua - user agent of the browser
After I read several responses I compiled a response with images:
Access the website: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction, on the page you will find this part, so click in the button Get a Key:
Create or select a project, and then NEXT:
Copy the API KEY:
Access the website to create your CX: https://cse.google.com/cse/create/new, write some random domain like “www.anypage.com”, (after we will delete), select a language, and define some name for your search engine. Click on the Button CREATE.
Will see this page, then click in Control Panel:
Copy the Search engine ID for later (this is your CX). After you can set to search in all websites (active Search the entire web, select on the random website www.anypage.com then click on the button Delete) and you can active Image search. So will see like this:
And Using REST you can get the results, using this example code (searching for flower):
<html lang="pt">
<head>
<title>JSON Custom Search API Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script>
function hndlr(response) {
console.log(response);
for (var i = 0; i < response.items.length; i++) {
var item = response.items[i];
// in production code, item.htmlTitle should have the HTML entities escaped.
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML += "<br>" + item.htmlTitle;
}
}
</script>
<script src="https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API_KEY&cx=SEARCH_ENGINE_KEY&q=flower&searchType=image&callback=hndlr"></script>
</body>
</html>
The base code is found here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/using_rest
After setting your API_KEY (key) and your SEARCH ENGINE KEY (cx), the result will see like this:
Thanks to #Vijay Shegokar, #aftamat4ik and #Alladinian
This is the full URL template to be used
We can eliminate unnecessary parameters.
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q={searchTerms}&num={count?}&start={startIndex?}&lr={language?}&safe={safe?}&cx={cx?}&cref={cref?}&sort={sort?}&filter={filter?}&gl={gl?}&cr={cr?}&googlehost={googleHost?}&c2coff={disableCnTwTranslation?}&hq={hq?}&hl={hl?}&siteSearch={siteSearch?}&siteSearchFilter={siteSearchFilter?}&exactTerms={exactTerms?}&excludeTerms={excludeTerms?}&linkSite={linkSite?}&orTerms={orTerms?}&relatedSite={relatedSite?}&dateRestrict={dateRestrict?}&lowRange={lowRange?}&highRange={highRange?}&searchType={searchType}&fileType={fileType?}&rights={rights?}&imgSize={imgSize?}&imgType={imgType?}&imgColorType={imgColorType?}&imgDominantColor={imgDominantColor?}&alt=json
I am using
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=ap_key&cx=cx&q=hello&searchType=image&imgSize=xlarge&alt=json&num=10&start=1
Change the API url to
Google Custom Image search
Provide the same parameters along with with API KEY and CX.
More Info and Explorer
The Yahoo Boss API is a reasonable substitute, although it's not free and the results are not quite as good.
UPDATE: YAHOO BOSS JSON Search API will discontinue on March 31, 2016
SerpAPI enables to search through Google Images and returns a clean json. it integrates with most of the programming languages: python, php, java, golang, nodejs...
https://serpapi.com/images-results
Google limit the number of search per day.
but this service provides unlimited searches...
looks like we need to implement google custom search API
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/
says so on top of the page you provided yourself
I'm trying to create a custom Blog post rotator for a homepage. It shows the 5 newest posts (Title, summary, date, and link) this works with the following code
var posts = App.WorkWith().BlogPosts().Publihed().Get().OrderByDescending(p => p.PublicationDate).Take(5)ToList();
But I only want to get posts with specific Tags. I'm able to get the Guid associated with a specific tag
TaxonomyManager taxmanager = TaxonomyManager.GetManager();
var taxonGuidId = taxmanager.GetTaxa<FlatTaxon>().Where(t => t.Name == "SpecificTag").Single().Id;
I can foreach through every post and see lots of information but cannot figure out how to determine if the specific Guid is attached to that post. Or take the post and get a list of Taxon; something like
var postTaxon = GetTaxon(BlogPost)
Is there a reason you need to use a custom widget? I would recommend using the standard list widget for blogs select the tag you want to show and then limit it to 5. Once you do that you can then us your JavaScript to create the rotator from the default classes or modify the template to have custom classes.
I have to implement a page with multiple google-powered search forms. We have a license from Google for CSE, and this is the situation:
I have a search form that's present at the top of every page that performs a simple search and displays the results in a separate page. This works.
I have a particular page that, in addition, shows another two search forms: one should filter articles by category, another should filter articles by category and restrict the result to a certain month. I have added a meta key with the publication date to each article for this.
I have gotten a bit lost in the documentation, though: if I add
<gcse:searchbox-only resultsUrl="/[site]/stat/search/google_search_results.html"></gcse:searchbox-only></div>
to the page, I can't filter the results. If I start to meddle with a CustomSearchObject, I don't see an option to show results on a different page.
For category-based filtering, I've tried appending
more:pagemap:metatags-taxonomies:news
to the query argument in the results page URL, and it does work, but I don't understand how to inject this to the form.
For restricting based on dates, I tried adding
&sort=more:pagemap:metatags-pubdate:r:YYYYMMDD:YYYYMMDD
but haven't been able to make it work. Getting the XML does work:
http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:[mysite]%20more:pagemap:metatags-taxonomies:News&sort=metatags-pubdate:r:20120401:20120830&cx=[mykey]client=google-csbe&output=xml
returns correct results.
Is there documentation that doesn't assume so much? All I find are code snippets without context. I've checked Filtering and sorting, Custom Search Element Control API, and of course this site, but I can't put all the pieces together.
I managed to implement what I wanted. In the search page, I built simple forms pointing to my results pages (this might not be doable if you must implement google branding), and in the results page I put the following:
(in the <head>)
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
// This function extracts the query from the URL (if GET) or builds a search query.
// Code removed to simplify the example.
function buildQuery () {
return '<?php echo $_POST['q'];?> more:pagemap:metatags-taxonomias:News'); // injecting the taxonomy metatag filter
}
google.load('search', '1', {language : 'es'});
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
var customSearchOptions = {};
customSearchOptions[google.search.Search.RESTRICT_EXTENDED_ARGS] = {'sort':'metatags-pubdate:d,metatags-pubdate:r:<?php echo $_POST['startdate'];?>:<?php echo $_POST['enddate'];?>'}; // these come from the POST request, are processed earlier in the script.
var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('XXXXXXXXXXX', customSearchOptions); // Put your own App key here.
customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET);
var drawOptions = new google.search.DrawOptions();
drawOptions.enableSearchResultsOnly(); // I don't want the search box here
customSearchControl.draw('cse-results-press', drawOptions);
var query = parseQuery();
if (query) {
customSearchControl.execute(query);
}
}, true);
</script>
In the <body>:
<div id="cse-results-press">Loading...</div>
I want to use the site catalyst api to get the most popular page (page that has maximum pageviews) under a given site-section? Let me explain better with an example.
My website has multiple channels (News/Journals/Books/Events etc). Each of the channel has many pages under it. I want a api call that will get the most popular news page or Journals page or Books page etc.
I am passing data to sitecatalyst like this..
s.pageName = o_title;
s.channel = o_structure
s.prop1 = o_iden
where o_title has the page title of a newspage or a journalpage etc..
o_structure refers to either "News" or "Journals" or "Books" etc.
Currently I am able to only get the most popular page on the entire site. I would appreciate if someone can help me find the most popular page per section.
Thanks,
Rag
I assume that you already know the basics of using the Omniture API, how to queue up a report and look for status and get it etc... here is a basic REST data string to get site sections (s.channel) broken down by page names (s.pageName) with page views as metric. You will use the Report.QueueRanked API method, and you need to specify the rsid(s) to get the data from and the date ranges.
{
"reportDescription": {
"reportSuiteID":"RSID",
"dateFrom":"YYYY-MM-DD",
"dateTo":"YYYY-MM-DD",
"metrics":[
{
"id":"pageViews"
}
],
"sortBy":"pageViews",
"elements":[
{
"id":"siteSection"
},
{
"id":"page"
}
]
}
}