Searching from Python

[wrybread]

I'm trying to do some google searches from Python, and I'm told the
way to do it is via the Ajax API from non javascript environments:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje

It works well, but I'm having trouble processing the results. The
problem is the results are in the form of a Python dictionary, but
Python reads them as a string, and I can't figure out how to return
the results to a dictionary. Here's my code, if anyone wants to have a
look:

import urllib2

url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?
v=1.0&q=Paris%20Hilton"

req = urllib2.Request(url)
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
data = opener.open(req).read()

# replace the "null" with "None" for Python
data = data.replace(": null,", ": None,")

# how to convert the string response to a dictionary?

# the code below doesn't work, since its still a string....

# simplify the results a bit
results = data["responseData"]["results"]

for i in results:
print i["url"]

[wrybread]

[Jeremy Geerdes]

A couple of links for parsing JSON into Python (from http://
www.json.org ):

http://docs.python.org/library/json.html
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/

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[wrybread]

Thanks, this looks great. I solved it using some duct tape before
getting your response, figured I'd update my code just in case someone
finds it useful. To anyone else reading this, this is a kludgey
method, you should probably use the json method posted by Jeremy.

With that said:

import urllib2

url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?
v=1.0&q=Paris%20Hilton"

req = urllib2.Request(url)
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
data = opener.open(req).read()

# replace the "null" with "None" for Python
data = data.replace(": null,", ": None,")

# convert the string to a dictionary
exec("data = " + data)

[wrybread]

But I'm still only getting 4 results... I don't imagine anyone has a
way to request more results? I tried changing the url to:

url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?
v=1.0&q=Paris%20Hilton&num=30"

But it still only sends 4 results.

[Jeremy Geerdes]

Did you see my response to your other thread?

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API/browse_thread/thread/407a1bf2a2219117

Jeremy R. Geerdes
Effective website design & development
Des Moines, IA

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Wesleyan Church!