I have question about displaying google results in UIWebView - using normal request e.g. http://www.google.pl/search?q=ios . I want use it in commercial application, are there any google licensing restrictions ?
As long as you're not modifying the webpage returned by a standard web search (like http://www.google.pl/search?q=ios), you are fine.
Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.
Source: Google Terms of Service
Try this:
Types of search engine query
Google Search = http://google.com/search?q=ios
Yahoo Search = http://search.yahoo.com/?q=ios
Bing Search = http://www.bing.com/search?q=ios
Ask Search = http://www.ask.com/web?q=ios
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I'm currently building a search box for a mobile app that can search for a Country/ State/ Country. I'm currently looking for APIs that can support this... An option for me would be the Google Places API but as much as possible I don't want to use Google for my project.
So before I import the Bing SDK into my project, I'm curious if anyone knows if this is possible with Bing API.
With Bing Maps you can use the location query API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingmaps/rest-services/locations/find-a-location-by-query however, it will also find addresses if you pass them in. Generally though, if you type just a state or country, this API will return the expected result. You can add a bit of code to look through the results and filter them based on their entity type if required.
Since you tagged Azure Maps, you can use the Azure Maps address search API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search/get-search-address It has filtering parameters available that might be better suited for this scenario.
I am currently working on a personal project to develop a REST API which would perform tasks similar to what UBER, OLA like taxi aggregators do. Below is the brief about the functionality that I plan to add:
1)I have a fleet of cabs whose location is determined by its latitude and longitude.
2)A customer can call one of the cabs by providing their location and my API should assign the nearest cab available.
This I suppose would be accomplished by using Google Map APIs. My question is how do i start on using these APIs, to simulate such functionality?
You may use the following references:
Choose from the Google Maps APIs documentations depending on your needs. There are actually tutorials given within the documentations.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions will also help especially the getting started part to fully understand how Google Maps APIs work.
Last but definitely not the least, this example in GitHub might help you exactly on the implementation.
I am very confused about the correct or recommended mechanism to use for accessing google fusion tables APIs in app scripts. There seem to be two methods with examples but no discussion about which is preferred or why. Is one of these interfaces newer and preferred while the other is dying? Is one obsolete or more restricted in what it can do?
Method 1 is the REST API described here
https://developers.google.com/fusiontables/docs/v2/sql-reference#Select
Method 2 is a set of library functions sort of described here under the Apps Script/Google Advanced Services:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/fusion-tables
For example, using the REST api to do a dql query, we end up with something like this:
function runSQL(sql){
var getDataURL = 'https://www.googleapis.com/fusiontables/v1/query?sql='+sql;
var dataResponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(getDataURL,getUrlFetchOptions()).getContentText();
return dataResponse;
}
And using the advanced API we use something like this:
result = FusionTables.Query.sql(sql, { hdrs: false });
The REST API seems much harder to use, requireing complex oAuth and developer keys to be configured in advance and coded into the application while the Advanced Services API harvests all this behind the scenes and makes for simple API calls like I show here.
I have seen numerous examples using each of the above with no hint as to why one author chose her mechanism instead of the other.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
The service within app-script is a work in progress, so the full functionality of the API might not be fully supported at the moment. As you mentioned though, the big advantage of the service over the REST API is that you do not have to handle the OAuth flow, as you only need to enable it on your script (as stated here).
The Apps Script "advanced service" implementation still lacks some advanced functionality (like alt=media format queries or multipart / resumable uploads) -- if it actually has those features, it lacks extremely basic documentation of them, to the point that the Apps Script editor autocomplete is unaware of them. The tradeoff of these functionality gaps is that you don't need to handle keys, request building, etc.
So, if you're doing simple sql select / importRows work, the Advanced Service should be able to cover almost all your needs. If you need to delete from your FusionTables, you might want to consider setting up the REST API - because deleting is 1 record per query, the better way to delete is to instead "download what you want to keep, then re-upload it back via replaceRows."
(This worked for me for a while, but eventually what I was keeping outgrew the Apps Script service's limitations and I began receiving Empty Response errors from the call to replaceRows. My remedy was to perform my record maintenance tasks via the REST API, where I can specify resumable uploads, timeouts, etc., while more "normal" interactions are done through the Advanced Service.)
I got a set of keywords that the user can type:
keyword1,
keyword2,
keyword3,
...
Up to 10 keywords
I'm looking for a way to estimate Google search engine traffic for these keywords. I would love to make a single GET request with all these keywords at once or one by one and display the search engine volume to the user.
Is there a web API from google that I can use to query keyword search engine volume?
If there's no such API, I would not mind opening some kind of web-based search engine tool and pass keywords to it, so the user can view the results in a webView. Is this possible?
Thank you for any input!
You can use the traffic estimator service with the Adwords API.
Google has a little tool for that, the tool is so small that they don't really have an api for it! But you could make it look integrated by getting the text from a webview then displaying it in a TextView.
LINK:http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
when you go to maps.google.com and search for "cupcakes" for example, you get the results displayed on a map, and on the left there is a list of results.
I want the user of my application (iPhone and Web) to be able to enter a search term, then it searches on google and provides a list (much like the list on the left in maps.google.com), the user can then select a location from the list.
The list would need to be in XML format or something similar that can be parsed on the iPhone. It needs to include the Name of the location, a description (if provided) and its address/coordinates.
Is this possible, and if so, how can it be done?
You'll probably want to use the Google AJAX Search APIs, which has a different set of terms from the Geocoder. The Geocoder is for taking an address and returning a lat/long, not for things like local search. Specifically, you'll want to use local search feature. Check out the section on "Flash and other Non-Javascript Environments" for info on how to access this though a RESTful interface (for the iPhone).
Google provides a number of map services where you can search for locations, etc. Especially their Geocoding API may be of interest. If you use their services you are however required to show these results on Google Maps.
An alternative to Google is to use one of the free GeoNames services. They have a more relaxed set of conditions.