Ok I'm searching for twitter profiles with Google Ajax Search
I'm using the following query:
?q=Radiant+Hex+site:twitter.com
I'm looking for urls like these:
twitter.com/radianthex
twitter.com/ignighted
...
But I often stumble in URLs of the form:
twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/7537167235
twitter.com/calvinharris/status/1905934068
Is there a way of removing these url from my search?
Help would be very much appreciated.
Looks like this works:
http://www.google.com/search?q=horse+site%3Atwitter.com+-inurl%3Astatuses+-inurl%3Astatus
the query being:
horse site:twitter.com -inurl:statuses -inurl:status
specifically it looks like you can use negation on the inurl keyword
yeah if using the negate option in google, you could do that to get rid of some more sub-paths:
site:twitter.com (inurl:radianthex OR inurl:ignighted OR inurl:billgates)
-inurl:status -inurl:statuses -inurl:favorites -inurl:lists
is it possible to use the twitter api directly? they have a nice method to search for users...
the twitter call would look like this:
http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=radianthex
theyll give you a password when you signup for free access...
they have some cool search options to tighten the results to make them more relevant for your app
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Is there an edge that would allow fetching all the campaigns, adgroups, etc., of a given advertiser? In researching this I see these:
GET /ads/v3/campaigns/{campaign}/
GET /ads/v3/adgroups/{adgroup}/
...
which return only single entities. I also found that there is an async report that returns entities in batch:
advertisers/<advertiser ID>/entities/batch/
Is this the best way to accomplish this? If so, the doc says it only supports campaigns right now, is that still the case?
Thanks
Sorry to waste your time folks, I've since found more and better doc and discovered that there is this:
/ads/v3/advertisers/{advertiser}/campaigns/
Here is a link to the doc for your own reference:
https://developers.pinterest.com/docs/redoc/#operation/ads_v3_get_advertiser_campaigns_handler_GET
I've looked through numerous answers (most were slightly outdated), and I was wondering if Apple had some sort of way to identify the type of business it queried?
From the reference guide, MKMapItem has 5 variables, none of which tell me a place is a "Thai Restaurant" or something like that.
placemark
isCurrentLocation
name
phoneNumber
url
I think its interesting how when you do a MKMapkit query on "thai", it'll give you a list of thai restaurants but thats a one way street and no where later can I take a result from the query on "thai" to verify that it is indeed a "thai" restaurant. More importantly, what I am particularly interested in is if a business is a "Thai" restaurant and a "Bar" as well, I want to be able to do a MKMapKit query on "Bar" OR "Thai" and be able to get both of those tags
I can see a solution of getting the coordinates of a business then using Google Maps API or even Yelp API and doing a search on there to get the "type of business" but that seems extremely cumbersome and inefficient.
Thanks for any advice! One of my first questions so please so easy on me =)
First, take a look with this link : http://www.raywenderlich.com/13160/using-the-google-places-api-with-mapkit
The google API will send back the name, type, location of business location near you.
It's also send icons(via image link) of business location, so you can display it on the map, which can help you which is market, which is coffeeshop...
But the "Thai Restaurant" maybe too detail so google doesn't want to show it.
Sorry about my bad english.
Hope it help.
For that you should use google near by place search or place search api. you can pass thailand as place name and restaurant to type and it will return you all the restaurant in thailand.
When you search for a restaurant in Google places and go to the business profile (i.e.:
https://plus.google.com/107507038669791289691/about?hl=en) the restaurant has a tag (in this case Mexican Restaurant). But when using the Google places api all I can see is a types list
"types" : [ "restaurant", "food", "establishment" ]
Anyone know if it's possible to get the tag "Mexican Restaurant" somehow?
I know about the supported types (https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types). It is not super helpful.
I was also working in a project which need to get more details about a place using Google Maps and Google Places APIs, and I really spent many hours trying to find something that can help ( Google Places API, Google Maps API, google+ APIs, ... ) but nothing ... the only things that I found is theses 2 issues ( feature requests ) which I hope that Google will add to their APIs someday :
Issue N° 5260 with 13 stars.
Issue N°7878 with 4 stars.
I hope with this SO question that we get more interested persons to get the feature in a soon future version of Google Map or Google Places APIs.
For the Google Places for Work API, I didn't find any information to confirm or not that it contains such feature, but I don't think so.
Hope that can help.
I think you would probably have to revert to the text search method on the api..
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/search#TextSearchRequests
So your request would end up looking something like the below, restricted down to a specific area
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=Mexican+Restaurant&sensor=true&location=40.846,-73.938&radius=20&key=yourKeyHere
However this will return all other Mexican restaurants in the area, so if you just want to return the one result I would use the Place Details request instead.
Separate your place types by PIPE symbol "|"
try like this :
String types = "cafe|restaurant|museum" // Listing places only cafes, restaurants and museums.
Whenever I search for tweets using the geocode option, the returned tweets have "null" as their geo property. They are definitely coming from the right place because the location property has a name which is in the correct area, however I want to know what the coordinates of the tweet are so I can place on on a map (specifically Windows Phone).
I've tried a really hacky solution of searching for the location using the geo api, but this seems a really awkward way of doing it and often returns bad results (I want results from Oxford, UK but often the geo search return Oxford, IN for example).
Looking around, it seems Twitter's geolocation is currently broken, but I really need this to work for a presentation on Thursday demonstrating an app we built in a group, and it would really suck if our main feature didn't work.
Twitter's search API is broken. It will not return some information which is available through the regular API.
Once you have found a Tweet, you can try looking it up directly using statuses/show
For example, calling one of my tweets:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show.xml?id=202471009973051393&include_entities=true
gives
<geo>
<georss:point>51.52505194 -0.132582</georss:point>
</geo>
<coordinates>
<georss:point>51.52505194 -0.132582</georss:point>
</coordinates>
I want to get all the search results for a particular keyword search on google. I've seen suggestions of scraping, but this seems like a bad idea. I've seen Gems (I plan on using ruby) that do scraping and use the API. I've also seen suggestions of using the API.
Does anyone know the best way to do this right now? The API Is no longer supported and I've seen people report they get unusable data back. Do the Gems help solve this or no?
Thanks in advance.
I also go for the scrape option, its quicker than asking google for a key and plus, and you are not limited to 100 search queries per day. Google´s TOS is an issue though, as Richard points out.
Here´s an example i´ve done that works for me - it´s also useful if you want to connect through a proxy:
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.set_proxy '78.186.178.153', 8080
page = agent.get('http://www.google.com/')
google_form = page.form('f')
google_form.q = 'new york city council'
page = agent.submit(google_form, google_form.buttons.first)
page.links.each do |link|
if link.href.to_s =~/url.q/
str=link.href.to_s
strList=str.split(%r{=|&})
url=strList[1]
puts url
end
end
According to http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/ , the Search API has been deprecated -- but there's a replacement, the Custom Search API. Will that do what you want?
If so, a quick Web search turned up https://github.com/alexreisner/google_custom_search , among other gems.
Use the Google Custom Search API:
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html
The Custom Search API most likely is not what you're looking for. I'm pretty sure you have to set up a Custom Search engine which you use the API to query, and this can only search over a user-specified set of domains (i.e. you can't perform general web search).
If you need to perform a general Google search, then scraping is currently the only way to go. It's quite easy to write ruby code to perform Google searches and scrape the search results URLs (I did this myself for a summer research project), but it does violate Google's TOS, so be warned.
You will eventually get 503 errors if you are running a scraper on a google search result page. A more scalable (and legal) approach is to use the Google's Custom Search API.
The API provides 100 search queries per day for free. If you need more, you may sign up for billing in the Google Developers Console. Additional requests cost $5 per 1000 queries, up to 10k queries per day.
The example below get's Google search results in JSON format:
require 'open-uri'
require 'httparty'
require 'pp'
def get_google_search_results(search_phrase)
# assign api key
api_key = "Your api key here"
# encode search phrase
search_phrase_encoded = URI::encode(search_phrase)
# get api response
response = HTTParty.get("https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q=#{search_phrase_encoded}&key=#{api_key}&num=100")
# pretty print api response
pp response
# get the url of the first search result
first_search_result_link = response["items"][0]["link"]
end
get_google_search_results("Top Movies in Theatres")
You can also use our API. We take care of the hard parts of scrapping and parsing Google search results. We have bindings available in Ruby as simple as:
query = GoogleSearchResults.new q: "coffee"
hash_results = query.get_hash
Repository: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby