Custom Search API lets you pro grammatically used to custom search engines for your site(s), you can search text OR images.
Format of URL
https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q={SEARCH_TEXT}&cx={SEARCH_ENGINE_ID}&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Question: What is SEARCH_TEXT?
It is search text which user want to search like "php", "interview questions", "web technology experts" etc.
Question: How to get SEARCH_ENGINE_ID?
- Login to your gmail account
- https://cse.google.com/cse
- Create a new "Search Engine" or Us Existing one
- Go to "Search Engine" from listing "Search Engine Listing"
- Enable the "Image search"
- Search "Sites to search" and select "Search on Entire Web"
- Get the Search Engine ID, My search engine id is "0150557dddd364721200:zrndkpkfwyga"
Question: How to get YOUR_API_KEY?
If you don't have API_KEY, please get the API Key from http://code.google.com/apis/console#access .
You must need google account.
Question: How to extract data from custom search with text PHP?
$url='https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q=php&cx={SEARCH_ENGINE_ID}&key={APP_KEY}'; try{ echo $jsonData=file_get_contents($url);die; $searchData = json_decode($jsonData); } catch (Exception $e){ echo $e->getMessage(); } if(!empty($searchData->items)){ foreach($searchData->items as $item){ echo $text = $item->title; echo "\n"; } }
Output
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor PHP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia PHP 5 Tutorial PHP | Codecademy PHP Tutorial PHP For Windows: Binaries and sources Releases PHP: The Right Way Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, Inc. (PHPNI) Newest 'php' Questions - Stack Overflow PHP Programming - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Question: What is URL of Google Explorer API ?
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/?hl=en_US#p/customsearch/v1/search.cse.list
Question: Give me example of Full data return by API in JSON Format?
{ "kind": "customsearch#search", "url": { "type": "application/json", "template": "https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q={searchTerms}&num={count?}&start={startIndex?}&lr={language?}&safe={safe?}&cx={cx?}&cref={cref?}&sort={sort?}&filter={filter?}&gl={gl?}&cr={cr?}&googlehost={googleHost?}&c2coff={disableCnTwTranslation?}&hq={hq?}&hl={hl?}&siteSearch={siteSearch?}&siteSearchFilter={siteSearchFilter?}&exactTerms={exactTerms?}&excludeTerms={excludeTerms?}&linkSite={linkSite?}&orTerms={orTerms?}&relatedSite={relatedSite?}&dateRestrict={dateRestrict?}&lowRange={lowRange?}&highRange={highRange?}&searchType={searchType}&fileType={fileType?}&rights={rights?}&imgSize={imgSize?}&imgType={imgType?}&imgColorType={imgColorType?}&imgDominantColor={imgDominantColor?}&alt=json" }, "queries": { "request": [ { "title": "Google Custom Search - php", "totalResults": "508000000", "searchTerms": "php", "count": 10, "startIndex": 1, "inputEncoding": "utf8", "outputEncoding": "utf8", "safe": "off", "cx": "015055756665264721200:zrnkpkfwyga" } ], "nextPage": [ { "title": "Google Custom Search - php", "totalResults": "508000000", "searchTerms": "php", "count": 10, "startIndex": 11, "inputEncoding": "utf8", "outputEncoding": "utf8", "safe": "off", "cx": "015055756665264721200:zrnkpkfwyga" } ] }, "context": { "title": "My Test Website" }, "searchInformation": { "searchTime": 0.526994, "formattedSearchTime": "0.53", "totalResults": "508000000", "formattedTotalResults": "508,000,000" }, "items": [ { "kind": "customsearch#result", "title": "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", "htmlTitle": "\u003cb\u003ePHP: Hypertext Preprocessor\u003c/b\u003e", "link": "http://php.net/", "displayLink": "php.net", "snippet": "3 days ago ... Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers \nwith a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs ...", "htmlSnippet": "3 days ago \u003cb\u003e...\u003c/b\u003e Server-side HTML embedded scripting language. It provides web developers \u003cbr\u003e\nwith a full suite of tools for building dynamic websites: native APIs ...", "cacheId": "s9KZuwBTtSkJ", "formattedUrl": "php.net/", "htmlFormattedUrl": "\u003cb\u003ephp\u003c/b\u003e.net/", "pagemap": { "cse_thumbnail": [ { "width": "81", "height": "77", "src": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0eKPRpNFSCbNpy4gCBZEwPVyUH9nZyQ_XbcbXanWV8ZarBAKse5lA-A" } ], "metatags": [ { "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" } ], "cse_image": [ { "src": "http://php.net//images/news/php10thbd.jpg" } ] } }, { "kind": "customsearch#result", "title": "PHP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "htmlTitle": "\u003cb\u003ePHP\u003c/b\u003e - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP", "displayLink": "en.wikipedia.org", "snippet": "PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also \nused as a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by ...", "htmlSnippet": "\u003cb\u003ePHP\u003c/b\u003e is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also \u003cbr\u003e\nused as a general-purpose programming language. 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