Google search API wrapper for Node.js

Question

I am looking for a Google search API wrapper to be used in Node.js, I have searched around but haven't found something updated and fully baked. Can anyone please recommend something working? Thanks

Protohuman

Use serphouse.com to search on Google via API and get data in JSON structure – Steenbok

Answer 1

Why aren't you using node client lib for Google APIs? https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client

var googleapis = require('googleapis');
googleapis.discover('customsearch', 'v1').execute(function(err, client) {
  // set api key
  client.withApiKey('...');
  client.search.cse.list({ q: '...' }).execute(console.log);
});

Frazer

I don't see any documentation that cse is supported by google's node wrapper. Is it? – Boucher

To specify a custom search engine, specify a cx property in the config object, next to the q property. A full example is available in the GitHub repo : github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client/blob/master/examples/… – Pelagia

Answer 2

I'm assuming you are not referring to the deprecated Google Web Search API...

The Google Custom Search API is a RESTful API. This means that you can easily access it without a specialized wrapper.

There are a couple of modules that make this easier. The one I usually use is the request module, which lets you make HTTP requests very simply.

Robrobaina

Answer 3

I just used node-google-images and it worked right away in less than 2 minutes:

https://github.com/vdemedes/node-google-images

Just call

npm install google-images

and then

client = require( 'google-images' );

client.search( 'Chicken Teriyaki', function (err, images) {
    console.log(images)
});

will return

[ { width: '1920', height: '1280', url: 'http://www.springkitchenrestaurant.com/Chicken_Teriyaki.jpg', writeTo: [Function] }]

(actually, it will return 4 results but stackoverflow prevents me from posting more than 2 links... - you get the gist!)

Purehearted

It is giving only one image data, How can I get more than 10 using this? Or I want an array of image data. Can you plz help me how can get an array of images of the search keyword. – Merlinmerlina

I think it was depreciated a while back. I use yahoo image search now. It costs a little but works decently. yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images – Purehearted

Answer 4

You can use jsearch module. Install with:

npm install jsearch

Usage:

js.google('queryStringYouWant',10,function(response){
    console.log(response) // for Google results 
})

Jessabell

What is the 10? is it a number of urls what I get? I think it is not giving the relevant URL what I want to search. – Merlinmerlina

Answer 5

You can use a third-party service like SerpApi with its Node.js library to scrape Google and get back structured JSON.

To install it:

npm install google-search-results-nodejs

Code example:

var gsr = require('GoogleSearchResults')
let serp = new gsr.GoogleSearchResults()
query_params = {
  q: "query",
  google_domain: "Google Domain", 
  location: "Location Requested", 
  device: device,
  hl: "Google UI Language",
  gl: "Google Country",
  safe: "Safe Search Flag",
  num: "Number of Results",
  start: "Pagination Offset",
  serp_api_key: "demo"
}

callback = function(data) {
 console.log(data)
}

// Show result as JSON
serp.json(query_params, callback)

// Show results as JSON with Images
serp.jsonWithImages(query_params, callback)

// Show result as HTML file
serp.html(query_params, callback)

Eagle