Re: V1 API - CustomSearch controls mostly work but Image Search.SetRestrictions fail - what am I missing? (Code linked below)

[Jeremy Geerdes]

Try putting the .setRestriction call AFTER the .draw call.

jg

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM, headtailgrep <steveho...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm racking my brain trying to get ImageSearch to return only large or extra large images, everything else under my control seems to be fine.

Ultimate goal: Restrict to my site only (working), Display search results only (working), return only X number of results (6 or 7) (working), only show images (working) and popup layout (working).

But my search control is returning results for images at 200x150 AND high resolution (large, Xlarge) images. I want to display high res image results only. No matter what I do to try and control using ImageSearch.SetRestriction it fails to behave as expected.

Here's a pastebin for proper formatting:

http://pastebin.com/KUUJmFBw

Ignore the commented out code, it is redundant.

What is confusing me is as follows:

I define and call the Custom Search Control at line 19

at line 25 I call the DrawOptions method and these successfully stick

So based on line 25, I define the ImageSearch method and set the options at line 30.

Then I Draw and Execute the control at 32 and 33.

In the arguments i'm adding the variables/methods I called at 25/28. Drawoptions successfully update but ImageSearch.* options fail to work.

I'm certainly missing something. Any tips highly appreciated with thanks.

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[headtailgrep]

No dice. Going to play with that idea though ;)

[headtailgrep]

 

also tried

 

 customSearchOptions['google.search.Search.RESTRICT_EXTENDED_ARGS'] = {
            'imgsz' : 'xxlarge'
    };

^ which is passed to new CustomSearchControl in the Options

 

and it also had no effect.

 

For kicks I also tried a query string (which I use elsewhere in the site) with &imgsz=xxlarge and it also had no effect, the image search still returne 200x150 image results.

 

No matter what I try I cannot eliminate the 150x200 image results. These are the ones I want to eliminate :)

[headtailgrep]

I've had no luck with controlling image size - It turns out the API allows  DrawOptions as the second argument of Execute, but no other allowances are made. So my method is not correct as shown in Pastebin.

 

Either way no permutations of how and when to call .SetRestriction and CustomSearchControl.draw have resulted in any image size controls.

 

I get the impression that an ImageSearch object is to be treated differently and executed differently. I could be wrong on that point but that's how it seems to me :(

 

CustomSearchControl.execute can also haev three paramaters - 1) the query 2) page number, 3) additional control

 

From the API it states for 3: "Specifies additional arguments to append to the URL. It is a one-time modification used only in this request."

 

I have attempted to use Query arguments (such as imgsz=xxlarge or &imgsz=xxlarge) - I assume this may be what they mean, but it had no effect :)

 

I am wondering if the Image Size options to not work in a CSE.

 

 

[headtailgrep]

On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:44:21 UTC-5, headtailgrep wrote:

I've had no luck with controlling image size - It turns out the API allows  DrawOptions as the second argument of Execute, but no other allowances are made. So my method is not correct as shown in Pastebin.

 

Either way no permutations of how and when to call .SetRestriction and CustomSearchControl.draw have resulted in any image size controls.

 

I get the impression that an ImageSearch object is to be treated differently and executed differently. I could be wrong on that point but that's how it seems to me :(

 

CustomSearchControl.execute can also has three paramaters - 1) the query 2) page number, 3) additional arguments

[headtailgrep]

This is still not working, but I have a workaround: append google search operators to the query solved my problem for now. It's not elegant (as it leaves holes open for resolutions not covered) but for example, in .execute i append to the search string: "-imagesize:200x150 -imagesize:930x170 -imagesize:728x90 -imagesize:720x90 -imagesize16x16

which worked for the most part. 16x16 was not filtered though ;)

 

Thank you everyone for viewing , if you do have ideas i'm still game to program the elegant solution if any suggestions arise.