[HN Gopher] Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with...
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       Now you can search on Google for free: Solution with API
        
       Author : karust
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-06-29 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | CodeCompost wrote:
       | Now do Reddit next :-P
        
         | malermeister wrote:
         | You can just extract the API key from the official app and
         | patch your third party app of choice to use it, at least on
         | Android.
        
       | dievskiy wrote:
       | As far as I can see reverse image search is not supported?
        
       | karust wrote:
       | Lately I've been struggling to get search engine results via API.
       | If you ever had the same situation, this project might help you
        
         | retox wrote:
         | Please tell me you aren't making the same mistake of building
         | any products around this. I can't stomach another startup
         | "we're shutting down" Tell HN post.
         | 
         | >API access for search engines results if available isn't free.
        
       | maltelandwehr wrote:
       | Are they scraping the Google web interface or using the API from
       | Google?
        
         | awaisraad wrote:
         | scraping - just looked at the code.
        
       | RamblingCTO wrote:
       | It's a wrapper around a headless chrome apparently, fyi. This
       | will see some growth is my guess. I'm also working on something
       | like that with 2markdown.com. A pity that you need a full blown
       | browser to retrieve web content. Maybe these weird semantic web
       | folks have been right all along ;)
        
         | krackers wrote:
         | Won't you get served captchas if you're querying frequently?
        
           | tourmalinetaco wrote:
           | I doubt it. Its user agent should look like a normal Chromium
           | browser, and under a normal residential IP it should look
           | like normal usage. Under a proxy service or VPN, however,
           | that may be different.
        
         | jiggywiggy wrote:
         | Semantic web wont do you good. Google doesn't like scraping and
         | won't make it easy for you to do so.
        
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