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OpenSearch and Google

finner — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:15:37 GMT

Hi,I'm currently looking at the search engine configuration and how to add remote repositories and I was wondering if it's possible to add Google, or Yahoo or any popular search engine into the mix on the OpenSearch list. The packaged example adds openTalk.So I thought , what about Google then?My we

Re: OpenSearch and Google

davidc — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:36:24 GMT

Almost there.

You can plug-in any url addressable search engine that returns atom or rss - html response is not supported. Here are some examples:


            <engine label="Yahoo UK News" proxy="yahooUKNews">
               <url type="application/rss+xml">
                  http://uk.news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p={searchTerms}
               </url>
            </engine>
            
            <engine label="Yahoo Search" proxy="yahoo">
               <url type="application/rss+xml">
                  http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query={searchTerms}&start={startIndex?}&results={count?}
               </url>
            </engine>

            <engine label="Wikipedia Search" proxy="wikipedia">
               <url type="application/rss+xml">
                  http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query={searchTerms}&site=wikipedia.org&start={startIndex?}&results={count?}
               </url>
            </engine>
            
            <engine label="Yahoo Image Search" proxy="yahooImage">
               <url type="application/rss+xml">
                  http://api.search.yahoo.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query={searchTerms}&start={startIndex?}&results={count?}
               </url>
            </engine>
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Re: OpenSearch and Google

finner — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:30:07 GMT

David,
Cheers for that. The examples work great. I still can't display results from a Google News search though.


<engine label="Google News"  proxy="googleNews">
  <url type="application/rss+xml">
   http://news.google.com/news?q={searchTerms}&output=rss                  
   </url>
</engine>
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I am getting a

Failed to retrieve search results …. HTTP response code 403..

Is there a standard method of finding out what the URL is for a particular site? For example, the openTalk URL search is


http://blogs.alfresco.com/opentalk/os-query?s={searchTerms}&itemstart={startIndex?}&itempage={startPage?}&itemlimit={count?}
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How would I go about finding out what arguments are required for the URL ?
I realise that every site is different so my question is probably one of those "how long is a piece of string?" questions. Apologies if so and thanks again for your previous reply.

Finner

Re: OpenSearch and Google

davidc — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:12:47 GMT

Look on the google site. When you find out, let us know.

Re: OpenSearch and Google

finner — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:40:41 GMT

Hi,
I had a look on the Google site but didn't get anything working. It looks like you need keys for permission using the Google API ……? I haven't had a chance to look into it further but if I find out anything I will certainly post it.

I found this if anyone is curious:

http://www.benhammersley.com/projects/google_to_rss.html

cheers
Finner

Re: OpenSearch and Google

javauser007 — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:59 GMT

hi Mike,
I configured the above code which u have mentioned in web-script-config-custom.xml (labs 3.0) and it is working fine in mozilla 3.0 and when i'm trying with IE 7.0 i'm getting this error "an error occured: Object required"
is there any limitation for this in IE?

for Google+opensearch,

Did anybody find the solutions for searching in google.
I'm spending a lot of time on this configuration and at the end came up with empty hands.
If anybody find this please post the code.
Thanks for your contribution.