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MC Cheung

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Dec 6, 2011, 5:24:33 AM12/6/11
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Hi, guys.


Anybody knows what's plan for Google Image Search API release ?


MC



Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 6, 2011, 8:36:28 AM12/6/11
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There have been no official announcements regarding if or when a successor for the Image Search API will be released.

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omr

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Dec 6, 2011, 1:52:33 PM12/6/11
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Image search capability was announced for Custom Search on December 1.

http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2011/12/image-results-for-your-custom-search.html


Here's a quick example.
(Note: this CSE is temporary, it will be deleted within the week.)

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=006546854575108700448%3A-imv5oe77ww&ie=UTF-8&q=a&sa=Search&hl=en%2Fcse%2Fhome%3Fcx%3D006546854575108700448%3A-imv5oe77ww%26hl%3Den#gsc.tab=1&gsc.q=example&gsc.page=1

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Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 6, 2011, 2:07:34 PM12/6/11
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Good catch, omr! I had not seen that post yet!

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MC Cheung

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Dec 7, 2011, 9:48:15 PM12/7/11
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thanks all post.

I make a browser bot auto get google image search results,
but google will block my IP address when search more than 200+

anybody has good idea ?


2011/12/7 Jeremy Geerdes <jrge...@gmail.com>

Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 7, 2011, 10:12:50 PM12/7/11
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Scraping results is never a good idea. It's against Google's general TOS. You can enable billing to get up to 10,000 requests per day.


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omr

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Dec 7, 2011, 10:13:30 PM12/7/11
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MC Cheung wrote:
> "I make a browser bot auto get google image search results ..."

I don't know anything more about your project but based on what you
wrote above I thought the following might be of interest.

(Disclaimer: I am NOT a lawyer or legal expert; this is not legal
advice.)

I assume you've read the Google TOS. (So you're aware of what it says
in section 5.3 for example.)

http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

If you've been using Custom Search, then you must also have read the
CSE TOS. (So you're aware of what it says in part (i) of section 1.4,
for example.)

http://www.google.com/cse/docs/tos.html

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omr

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Dec 7, 2011, 10:24:20 PM12/7/11
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Jeremy mentioned the possibility of paid use of a search API.

I mentioned the image search capability for Custom Search -- but the
reference I gave was NOT related to the billable JSON/Atom Custom
Search API.

Here is documentation for that API:

http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html

But I don't know if image result data will be available from that API.

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Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 7, 2011, 10:28:09 PM12/7/11
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Hmm. I guess I assumed that, since the CSE supports image search, the CSAPI, which is tied directly to the CSE, should support it, too. I suppose that could be incorrect. Perhaps Adam Feldman would weigh in on the matter because I haven't seen any explicit confirmation or denial from the docs. And even if it does support it, will the results objects have the same basic format as the regular search results?

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Adam Feldman

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Dec 7, 2011, 10:34:35 PM12/7/11
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Hi Jeremy and folks,

This is a good question.  I haven't heard anything about it, but have asked my colleagues on the Custom Search API team and pointed them towards this thread.  In general, Google doesn't comment on unreleased products, but we'll be sure to let you know if/when anything along these lines launch.

Thanks for the interest!

Cheers,
Adam

Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 7, 2011, 11:06:32 PM12/7/11
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So, to be clear, the CSAPI does NOT presently support the CSE image search functionality?


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Adam Feldman

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Dec 7, 2011, 11:07:53 PM12/7/11
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That's right.  It's a feature we're looking into, but it's not currently supported.

Thanks,
Adam

hxu-cse

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Dec 7, 2011, 11:08:53 PM12/7/11
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Custom Search API doesn't support image search results right now.  The only way to get raw image search results is from Google Site Search (GSS) XML API, but that can't be used to search the entire web.

As Adam mentioned, we'll be sure to let our developers know if image results launch in CS API.

Jeremy Geerdes

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Dec 7, 2011, 11:11:06 PM12/7/11
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Thank you, Adam, for the clarification.

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omr

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Dec 8, 2011, 12:03:06 AM12/8/11
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> Thank you, Adam, for the clarification.

Seconded

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hxu-cse

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Feb 14, 2012, 3:49:20 PM2/14/12
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And the image search is supported now:

Insun He

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Feb 15, 2012, 8:04:51 PM2/15/12
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Hi,
Thank you for making image search results available for customization.
I have a little dumb question.
I have visited the API explorer site and entered my query and id.
http://code.google.com/apis/explorer/#_s=customsearch&_v=v1&_m=cse.list&q=elephant&cx=016153355782796311768:arkzj3g5kru

When I execute the query, I see the attribute in the result that I want to display in my project.
It is the source for the image(not thumbnail)
Here is the part that shows it:
...
"pagemap": {
"cse_image": [
{
}
...

I have been hunting like a scavenger in all google documentation during the last month or so but still don't know what I exactly need to do to install pagemap and display particular source such as larger image and image only.

I'd appreciate your help so much.

Please let me know.

Sincerely,



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And the image search is supported now:

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