GoogleAjax¶ ↑

• Docs: googleajax.rubyforge.org

• Code: github.com/geemus/googleajax

Ruby wrapper for Google AJAX API REST interfaces(Feeds, Language and Search).

require "googleajax"

# First, setup referrer:
GoogleAjax.referrer = "your_domain_name_here"

# Optionally, you can set an api_key:
GoogleAjax.api_key = "your api key here"

# Find top 4 web page results for 'Hello world'
GoogleAjax::Search.web('Hello world')

# Find top 4 blogs for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Search.blogs('ruby')

# Find top 4 books for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Search.books('ruby')

# Find top 4 images for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Search.images('ruby')

# Find top 4 local results for 'ruby' at latitude 48.8565, longitude 2.3509
GoogleAjax::Search.local('ruby', 48.8565, 2.3509)

# Find top 4 news results for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Search.news('ruby')

# Find top 4 video results for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Search.video('ruby')

# Find top 10 feeds for 'ruby'
GoogleAjax::Feed.find('ruby')

# Load 4 most recent entries from 'http://monki.geemus.com/feed/atom.xml'
GoogleAjax::Feed.load('http://monki.geemus.com/feed/atom.xml')

# Load 10 entries instead of the default 4
GoogleAjax::Feed.load(url, {num: 10})

# Find feed for 'http://monki.geemus.com'
GoogleAjax::Feed.lookup('http://monki.geemus.com')

# Find the language of the string 'Ciao mondo'
GoogleAjax::Language.detect('Ciao mondo')

# Translate 'Hello world' to italian
GoogleAjax::Language.translate('Hello world', 'en', 'it')

Results from the methods are hashes, automatically converted from the response from Google.

For example:

# Find top 4 web page results for 'Hello world'
GoogleAjax::Search.web('Hello world')
# => { :results=>[
#       { :title=>"<b>Hello world</b> program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia",
#         # ... more data ...
#         :url=>"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program"
#       },
#       # ... more results
#     ],
#     :cursor=>{
#       :current_page_index=>0,
#       # ... more data ...
#       :estimated_result_count=>57800000
#     }
#   }

When possible, the result is simplified:

• Feed.find will return an array instead of {:entries => array}

• Feed.load will return the feed instead of {:feed => feed}

• JSON gem to parse responses, or rails

sudo gem install googleajax

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