I am using the Mendeley API to retrieve documents in the profile of a user.
Specifically, I am using this API:
GET https://api.mendeley.com/search/documents?view=all&limit=25&title=ONTOLOGY
I would like to search for all the documents that match a partial term, i.e. instead of the full word "ONTOLOGY" I would like to get the same result if I do an HTTP call like
GET https://api.mendeley.com/search/documents?view=all&limit=25&title=ONTOLO
How can I achieve that?
Should I put any jolly character?
I tried
ONTOLO*
ONTOLO$
ONTOLO?
with no luck.
I haven't found any documentation related to this feature.
Thanks!!
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 have implemented google custom search (https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/reference/cse/list#request) that searches flickr and other sources on my site and now suddenly it gives me very wierd results.
My query looks like this (key and search engine id removed)
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?num=10&rights=cc_attribute&searchType=image&safe=high&key={key}&cx={searchengine}&q=cat&start=1
So a search on 'cat' obviously gives totalResult:219000 in the response. I get 10 result per request but when I use start=11
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?num=10&rights=cc_attribute&searchType=image&safe=high&key={key}&cx={searchengine}&q=cat&start=11
I get totalResults:12!
What am I doing wrong? This used to work.
I'm using the REST API (venues platform) to get a list of the top 5 venues per destination and category, like they are listed in the search results on the foursquare website.
For example i do the following request using the explore api endpoint:
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/explore?near=zurich,CH&query=College %26 University
I'm using the apias a not authenticated. I do not pass a radius, to get the default radius.
Now the results from the api is as follows:
1. ETH Hönggerberg HIL
2. Technopark
3. Kantonsschule Stadelhofen
4. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Departement Musik
5. Klubschule Migros
When i search on the Foursquare Website as follow (not logged in!):
https://foursquare.com/explore?near=Zurich%2C%20CH&q=College%20%26%20University
I get the following results listed on the website:
1. SBB Digital
2. Technopark
3. ETH Hönggerberg HIL
4. EF Education First
5. Klubschule Migros
Is it possible to get the same list, as shown on the website (in the same order) also from the api? If yes? how can i do that? how do i call the api or how do i have to sort the results from the api to get the same list?
First i tried to sort the api results by the rating field, but that doesn't do the trick at all. Because in this example no one of the first 30 results does have any rating.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Greets
Tom
Make sure you are making the explore request with the same user account as on the web. Also, it looks like your queries do not match up exactly. One is "College & University and the other is "college" - try matching up the queries and seeing if the results change.
Well meanwhile i got the answer from foursquare.
The trick is very simple: just have to add the following parameters to the api call: time=any and day=any.
Then you get the results ordered exactly the same way as on the foursquare webpage (when not authenticated).
Thank you david from foursquare! :-)
I'm trying to figure out how to force google custom search to give me back 20 results per page.
I've tried to send this REST request configuring my new Custom Search Engine to:
Standard edition: Free, ads are required on results pages.
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=AIzaSyCgGuZie_Xo-hOECNXOTKp5Yk7deryqro8&cx=015864032944730029962:5ipe0q27hgy&q=test&alt=json&num=20
IT NOT WORKS!
but
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=AIzaSyCgGuZie_Xo-hOECNXOTKp5Yk7deryqro8&cx=015864032944730029962:5ipe0q27hgy&q=test&alt=json&num=10
IT WORKS!
But reading documentation at
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results#numsp
it says that:
Optional. The num parameter identifies the number of search results to return.
The default num value is 10, and the maximum value is 20. If you request more than 20 results, only 20 results will be returned.
Note: If the total number of search results is less than the requested number of results, all available search results will be returned.
Someone has experienced this problem?
PS: I've tried also to send that REST request configuring my new Custom Search Engine to:
Site Search: Starts at $100 per year, ads are optional on results pages.
But nothing has changed no way to obtain 20 results in a request/page
This documentation url has descriptions of each parameter. It also says num is restricted to integers between 1 and 10, inclusive.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/using_rest#query-params