I want to use the Deezer API to find a good match for a track using its title & artist, so I tried to use the advanced search described in http://developers.deezer.com/api/search#infos
But this api returns a lot of erratic results. For example:
https://api.deezer.com/search?q=artist:%27jeff%20mills%27 //Completely à côté de la plaque
https://api.deezer.com/search?q=jeff%20mills //Nice
It's pretty weird that when using the advanced search the result is less accurate than without it...
So is there a way to receive an accurate result for a track by specifying the artist and the title?
Thanks
Actually, it is not simple quotes that should be used but double quotes, and it works. We will update the documentation about this point, thank you!
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Trying Bing Spell Check API, but it doesn't seem to work correctly with languages other than English. Available languages for Spell Check
I've tried to check French text, but the results will actually suggest mistakes to a perfectly fine text and vice versa (meaning it also won't correct a mistake in a text).
I've tried checking this text:
La Terre a un noyau interne solide
This is how I've passed the language:
var result = client.SpellCheckerWithHttpMessagesAsync(text: text, mode: "spell", acceptLanguage: "fr-FR").Result;
I've also tried setLang:
var result = client.SpellCheckerWithHttpMessagesAsync(text: text, mode: "spell", setLang: "fr-FR").Result;
The result suggested changing solide to solid which is wrong.
I've tried other texts as well as different languages with the same results.
Am I missing something in how to use this API?
Pls use market parameter mkt=fr-fr in the query and drop the setLang parameter.
I am trying to figure out how exactly google's search operator AND works for an application that I am currently building.
I found this article:
https://supple.com.au/tools/google-advanced-search-operators/
that says that google uses AND operator as a default operator when searching
however I am trying some examples and this doesn't seem to be the whole story
For example, when I search for:
Google search term: perth tourism sea surfing
it gives me more search results than:
Google search term: perth tourism sea
How is that possible, I would expect that AND operator would narrow the search results not increase them (this is what I would expect from an OR operator)
Any ideas of why this is happening?
Check this resource out: https://www.webpagefx.com/blog/google-2/google-advanced-search-operators-cheat-sheet/
I have a feeling the default behaviour is and/or, but I am somewhat speculating.
You could incorporate some quotes such as perth tourism "sea surfing" but I might try something such as allintext: perth tourism sea surfing. That would be more machine-friendly than worrying about where to include quotes. Quotes may also constrain the order of your keywords. For example, "I like cats" will find an exact match (and not return pages with I cats like).
Additionally, I think you might not be using AND as it is documented on the site you linked.
The AND operator functions with the same logic as an AND operator - similar to the OR operator, it must be in all CAPS to work. Google will look for all conditions to be met before returning any results.
e.g. site:twitter.com AND intitle:SuppleSolutions AND inurl:Saijo_George where all the 3 conditions should be satisfied for Google to return any result.
Your search terms should probably be:
perth AND tourism AND sea AND surfing
You could add to your logic to replace the search string's characters with AND but before that, I would probably see if allintext: perth tourism sea surfing is viable.
Apparently I think that it is a problem of personalization and localization
I did the following things:
1. I open an incognito window
2. I signed out from all google accounts
3. I opened google.com rather than google.xx using www.google.com/ncr
4. I searched "perth" AND "tourism" AND "sea" and "surfing"
which seems to narrow down the results from searches with less terms.
I'm using the google custom search api and want to create a search using the siteSearch:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=k&cx=cx&q=cocos2d&siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org&siteSearchFilter=i
and it works fine (returns all the result only from the given site).
Then I want to specify TWO sites to search so I tried to change the :
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org
to
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org www.XXXXXXXX.org
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org|www.XXXXXXXX.org
siteSearch=www.cocos2d-iphone.org||www.XXXXXXXX.org
but none of these works.
hope someone can help here, thanks:)
Currently I don't believe you can specify more site through the query param siteSearch.
nevertheless you can configure your Custom Search Engine here: https://www.google.com/cse/manage/all
in the "Site to search" area.
This also works for excluding, as you can read here: https://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2631038&topic=2601037&ctx=topic
You cannot do this with the as_sitesearch parameter as that only accepts a single value. But you can achieve what you want with the as_q parameter, setting it to some value like: "site:google.com OR site:microsoft.com" - that will work in a similar way to this search.
The as_q parameter is documented here as:
The as_q parameter provides search terms to check for in a document.
This parameter is also commonly used to allow users to specify
additional terms to search for within a set of search results.
Examples q=president&as_q=John+Adams
Use "space" as seperator
Below is sample PHP code which works for me
$url="https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=k&cx=cx&q=cocos2d&siteSearch=".urlencode("www.cocos2d-iphone.org www.XXXXXXXX.org")."&siteSearchFilter=i"
Thanks,
Ojal Suthar
Google Analytics API: how to extract pageviews for a specific page?
I tried using something like
ga:pagePath=~page.php%3fid%3d44 (page.php?id=44)
but it doesn't seem to work... I get "no results found" where I have 20 pageviews for sure
UPDATE
I think I found the solution
ga:pagePath==/website/page.php?id=44
for some reason I had to include the complete path and ==
To use a partial path to match for a page in filters you should use
ga:pagePath=#page.php?id=44
=# tells ga to match a substring.
What you were originally using was incorrect for this.
I think your problem is that you put the hex version of the ? and = characters into your query, which doesn't match how Analytics stores the page paths. If you change these to the normal characters it should work:
ga:pagePath=~page.php?id=44
Your other solution should work as well but is a bit more inflexible in case you wanted to tweak the query to return other pages.
I am making some PHP code which takes a given search phrase and url and searches through the google search results until it finds the url (only first 100 results). My problem is, this is only working for the US. I have tried adding the "&cr=" option, but it still on returns US results.
The full URL I am using for the request is:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API_KEY&cx=CX_VALUE&q=KEYWORD&cr=COUNTRY&alt=JSON
Does anyone have any experience with this? I want to be able to see UK results. Tried inserting &cr=countryUK , but still only does US results.
Thanks :)
Regards,
Stian
Use the gl=<country code> param to limit it to your country of choice (so gl=gb for the uk).
More info here:
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2009/10/web-search-in-your-country.html