NAME

REST::Google::Search - OO interface to Google Search API

SYNOPSIS

        use REST::Google::Search;
        REST::Google::Search->http_referer('http://example.com');
        my $res = REST::Google::Search->new(
                q => 'Larry Wall',
        );
        die "response status failure" if $res->responseStatus != 200;
        my $data = $res->responseData;
        my $cursor = $data->cursor;
        my $pages = $cursor->pages;
        printf "current page index: %s\n", $cursor->currentPageIndex;
        printf "estimated result count: %s\n", $cursor->estimatedResultCount;
        my @results = $data->results;
        foreach my $r (@results) {
                printf "\n";
                printf "title: %s\n", $r->title;
                printf "url: %s\n", $r->url;
        }

DESCRIPTION

"REST::Google::Search" provides OO interface to Google REST (aka AJAX) API for searching.

METHODS

__PACKAGE__->service()

Get/set service to use.

The following table lists the URL used to access Google search services:

        service   address
        -------   ------------------------------------------------------
        WEB       http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web
        VIDEO     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/video
        NEWS      http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news
        LOCAL     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/local
        IMAGES    http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images
        BOOKS     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/books
        BLOGS     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/blogs
        PATENT     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/patent

Service constants are exported on demand, so you can use the constants instead of service URLs:

        use REST::Google::Search qw/VIDEO/;
        REST::Google::Search->service( VIDEO );

Default service is "WEB".

__PACKAGE__->http_referer()

Get/set HTTP "Referer" header.

Note: Google says that you should supply a valid HTTP referer header each time you perform a request to their AJAX API, so new() raises warning unless referer is specified.

__PACKAGE__->new()

The constructor use it's arguments to build a valid HTTP GET request to Google Search service, so it takes the same arguments as the web service takes. Please refer to 'Google Search AJAX API' documentation for complete list of arguments for Google Search. E.g.:

        my $res = REST::Google::Search->new(
                q => 'Pamela Anderson',
                start => 4,
                hl => 'fr'
        );

If you're using the default (WEB) search, the code above will perform a following HTTP GET request:

        http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?hl=fr&q=Pamela+Anderson&v=1.0&start=4

Note: You can left protocol version number unspecified while making your searches since "v=1.0" is passed by default.

CLASSES

"REST::Google::Search" contains dedicated classes for each of supported search services. You may use them instead of specifying certain service with "service" class method. E.g:

        use REST::Google::Search::Blogs;
        # ...
        # set referer, etc
        my $r = REST::Google::Search::Blogs->new( q => 'foobar' );

is the same as:

        use REST::Google::Search qw/BLOGS/;
        REST::Google::Search->service( BLOGS );
        # ...
        # set referer, etc
        my $r = REST::Google::Search->new( q => 'foobar' );

Available classes:

REST::Google::Search::Web
REST::Google::Search::Blogs
REST::Google::Search::Books
REST::Google::Search::Images
REST::Google::Search::Local
REST::Google::Search::Video
REST::Google::Search::News
REST::Google::Search::Patent

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