Since the beginning of this year (7 full months!), there has been a couple of questions about the search function in Pinterest API.
Example: I am getting the same response as our friend leonardo here: Pinterest API search not working anymore
Here, our friend Carl said the API now only serves for domain search purposes: How to get search feed from Pinterest API - that is a relatively fresh answer.
Thus, killing two birds with one stone, I would like to ask someone experienced with working with Pinterest API to share the current state of version 3 'global search' meaning if it is possible to execute a command like that nowadays:
file_get_contents('https://api.pinterest.com/v3/search/pins/?join=via_pinner,board,pinner&page_size=' . $number . '&query=' . $word . '&access_token=' . $key)
Plus, if impossible, what is the domain search Carl mentioned and can we use it for similar search purpose to look for pins containing a predefined keyword?
PS. Get domain name for pinterest api this is also pretty relevant.
I just happen to be looking for searching for pins using the API but it seems that their whole API has been revised and the global search function is not even available anymore (as far as I'm aware)
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I'm trying to use youtube data search and video API in my web application to display top view-counted videos related with several keywords. I'm planing to use totally two calls: the first call get id list with search API, and the second call get details for the ids hit on the first call, with video API.
My question is with regard to search API. Based on my trial and error, If I input multiple keyword with space separation in the parameter q for search API, it's looks behaves as AND condition it's not same as common behavior such as google. To search with multiple keywords with OR condition, As far as I tried, it's looks working if I Include the OR between keywords, but I would like to confirm my assumption correct, officially if possible.
I should be able to find this kind of specification in the official documentation, but finally I have no luck. It's very helpful if you could share these links if exists or give me the official answer.
By the way, it is my first post to stackoverflow. If there is missing point of my question, please kindly advice.
When searching for a specific place in the Google Places API I found out that Google delivers results far away from the restriction I sent with.
For example:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?key=<mykey>&inputtype=textquery&input=<PlaceQuery>&fields=name,geometry&locationbias=circle:200#<lat>,<lng>
In this query above I tried to find a place in a specific circle (200 metres) around a point lat lng. (Removed for this post)
Google does it's work but when I enter a place to search for which is definitely not in the region I specified it still finds the place.
Did I misunderstood something with this type of search query? Or is it a mistake at googles end?
I just wanted to know if anything changed on geocode API from 21 st February because before 21st it was validating zip code 9 digits but from yesterday it is giving an error on 9 digits zip code and now it only validating 5 digits zip code.
More information in your question would be helpful.
I haven't noticed any change, but I thought I'd take a look at the GeoCoder Documentation FAQ for you.
Yes, based on that date, I'd say something changed recently.
Perhaps this is what you're referring to, but that's only a speculation since you didn't provide any detail or examples.
Troubleshooting
I’m getting more queries that return ZERO_RESULTS with the new geocoder. What’s going on?
In the new geocoder, ambiguous, incomplete and badly formatted queries, such as misspelled or nonexistent addresses, are prone to produce ZERO_RESULTS. These queries would typically produce incorrect results in the old geocoder, such as returning the suburb if the address could not be found. We believe that returning ZERO_RESULTS is actually a more correct response in such situations.
If your application deals with user input of addresses, the Place Autocomplete feature in the Places API may produce better quality results. Place Autocomplete allows users to select from a set of results based on what they’ve typed, which allows users to choose between similarly named results, and to adjust their query if they misspell an address.
If you have an application dealing with ambiguous or incomplete queries or queries that may contain errors, we recommend you use the Place Autocomplete feature in the Places API rather than the forward geocoder available in the Geocoding API. For more details, see Best Practices When Geocoding Addresses and the Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs blog post.
More Information:
Documentation FAQ
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I'm curious to know how Market Samurai, Long Tail Pro and other software handle retrieving the top 10 Google search results and not running into limits. It appears that these software packages use the users own Google account. Google Custom Search limits users to 100 queries per day (the free limit) but people tend to do keyword research on hundreds or even thousands of keywords per day and don't pay any additional amounts to Google.
Are they paying extra for this service, are they using a different API (perhaps the Adwords API?) or are they scraping the Google search results page (violation of TOS)? Really would like to know! Thanks.
i have done this in one of my project (in java).
this is very simple, in java there is one library call JSoup by using this library you can send get request to google, for example:
https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=<your url encoded search term>
this will return you an HTML code of google search result with your own term.
using Jsoup u can find specific HTML tag with specific class or id. this concept helps you to extract url link, title and description from google search result.
for working example check here, in that example you can extract google serach result links with custom search term.
i hope this will help you.
I would like to use the Google custom search API for searching only in discussions like using the query string &tbm=dsc.
Unfortunately there is no tbm parameter given in the API documentation.
Is it not possible to limit the search results to discussions only?
No, there is currently not a way to do the discussion search with CSE/GSS. The only special search is image which is documented in the API reference. You could use Labels and Refinements to limit your search to specific sites and/or patterns.
Limiting search results for Google Custom Search to only discussion websites is not possible. Just in case, remember that Google Custom Search is for searching over one website or a collection of websites. If your collection is all discussion sites, well, that doesn't seem to be the purpose of Google Custom Search. However, there may be some useful workarounds/solutions.
Workaround 0
Find or generate a collection of discussion sites you're interest in and create a custom search based on that. This would accomplish (almost) the same results you are after.
Workaround 1
You might be able to perform a redirection with refinement labels. This example redirects to a Google Scholar search. You might be able to accomplish the same result using &tbm=dsc.
<CustomSearchEngine>
<Title>Universities</Title>
<Context>
<Facet>
<FacetItem title="Papers">
<Label name="papers" mode="FILTER"/>
<Redirect url="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=$q"/>
</FacetItem>
</Facet>
</Context>
</CustomSearchEngine>