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google_search

Google_search is a project mainly written in ..., based on the MIT license.

Tiny wrapper for Google Search APIs

= Google Search

Tiny wrapper for Google Search APIs.

== Usage

require 'google_search'

GoogleSearch.web :q => "pink floyd"

=> {"responseData"=>{"results"=>[{"GsearchResultClass"=>"GwebSearch", "title"=>"Pink Floyd | The Official Site", "url"=>"http://www.pinkfloyd.com/", "cacheUrl"=>"http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:iFN1qQtvV7gJ:www.pinkfloyd.com", "content"=>"", "visibleUrl"=>"www.pinkfloyd.com"...yaddayadda

You can also search videos, images, books etc. by calling GoogleSearch.[SEARCH TYPE] (e.g. GoogleSearch.images :q => "apple pie")

For documention on options and response formats see http://code.google.com/intl/hr/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_intro_fonje

=== Default options

You may specify default options that go into every request. Usually you'll put your API key here.

GoogleSearch.default_options = { :key => "my-key", :hl => "hr" }

=== Paginated search

GoogleSearch.with_pages(1..5) do |search| search.images(:q => "moon") end

This will do search 5 times, each time given a different page (1..5). Useful for getting more results at once.

=== Handling errors

On invalid response a GoogleSearchError is raised, describing the error.

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Sasa Brankovic. See LICENSE for details.