Right now I'm using Custom Search Engine (CSE) to search through entire web by search term. The request looks like:
GET "https:/www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API_KEY&cx=SEARCH_ENGINE_ID&q=SEARCH_TERM"
And this request returns me list of search results.
But, I need to implement search by image or image url. Do Google API provide such a url param? Maybe something like "image_url"? So, the request can look the following:
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=API_KEY&cx=SEARCH_ENGINE_ID&image_url=http://www.example.com/image.png
Basically, I need to implement the same functionality as images.google.com/ but using my Custom Search Engine. Thanks.
Example of what I need to implement:
As far as I know, what you're looking for is only supported by Vision AI service (partially at least, never used it before). Google CSE API only allows you to search images and not by images as you may noticed.
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I am building a search component that allows users to filter by type of response. You can see all responses, just the PDFs, or just the webpages. I have the first two parts down, all responses is a basic search and you can filter for pdfs using &fileType=pdf in the query, but i'm not sure how to exclude the pdfs and only return web pages.
I can't find a similar "exclude" param such as -fileType which seems to be supported in other similar APIs. Maybe I just need to format the URL the right way... If anyone has insight into how to accomplish something like this I would appreciate it.
You can try with -inurl:pdf in your URL.
Just setup my CSE with Image Search enabled in the Basics tab, but still ain't getting results.
If I don't use searchType=image in the query it works, if I put it back it stops working with no errors, just no results.
Any inputs?
It seems there are two elements required to consume the Google search API, the configuration of the API key and credentials.
Setup the API key here https://console.developers.google.com/project
and create your own CSE here https://www.google.co.uk/cse/all
I made the mistake like a lot of people of ignoring the CSE side of the setup (it didn't seem logical to search only my own site).
You need to create a CSE though, point it to search any url (I don't think it matters greatly), and then where it says "Sites to search" chose "Search the entire web but emphasise included sites". Also then set image search to "On".
Once you've done this browse to your new CSE, the url should contain your CX code e.g. cx=014341056213260336986:v4fl8n8sabc, you then need to use this in your request query string.
Your API query should now start returning results.
Image search needs to be switched to ON at the Custom Search Setup->Basics
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to do google similar image searches via an API?
I know the image search api is depreciated but is it still useable?
https://developers.google.com/image-search/
Also... It seems that you can do image searches with the custom search api but I can't seem to work out if a similar image search is possible.
http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/02/14/googles-custom-search-api-now-supports-image-only-results/
Any leads on advice on working this our would be appreciated.
Thanks!
If you have a URL for a hosted image (using Dropbox, imgur, etc), the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/15134958/116891 shows you how to find similar images. Basically,
http://images.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=YOUR_HOSTED_URL
That is deprecated.
But I need JSON format of similar images result.
So, I try to use google cse but this is not supported searching of similar images.
It's just displayed image search results in a custom domain.
Another method that i try is URL.
http://images.google.com/searchbyimage?image_url=YOUR_HOSTED_URL
But this is not solution what i need.
It is because able to use in the browser. I need JSON.
Conclude, I decide to use Vision API of Google.
This is very simple.
https://cloud.google.com/vision/
You can try on the top.
First, access the URL.
Second, upload your image file on the "Try API".
Third, click "JSON" tab menu on the result.
You can be seen JSON about similar images.
I'm trying to pull pictures from Google Images using AJAX and a color filter.
The Google Search API has been deprecated, and use of the Custom Search API is encouraged instead. However, in reading the Programmer's Guides found there, I see no option for global search instead of site-specific search. It says here to set up a custom search engine, but this requires the searching to be limited to a specific URL!
There is a similar SO post which links to a Google Groups discussion. The only solutions offered there are either to use the deprecated API, something I'm rather loath to do since access has been limited, or to use the Bing API instead, which cannot filter searches by colors.
Are there really no other solutions? Is it impossible to perform a global Google Images search using AJAX?
I have a search bar which should show me only the PDF files from Google when i start searching for something.Which API can i use for searching in google and how can i integrate that in my code.Are there any tutorial available for it.
You'll use the Documents List API
You'll search by MIME type.
It'll look like this (but needs to be properly encoded):
GET https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/-/{http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind}application/pdf