OpenSearch and Google

[finner]

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 web-api-config-custom.xml

  <!– register the proxy engine –>
            <engine label="Google"  proxy="google">

               <url type="application/rss+xml">
               </url>

               <url type="application/atom+xml">

               </url>

            </engine>


         <proxy> 

        <!–  URL of Search Engine proxy –>

          <url>
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/search/engine/google/atom?as_q=alfresco
         </url>
         </proxy>


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I've obviously misunderstood the documentation on this.
Is it possible to search on Google (or other search engines) as well ? Has anyone done it?

Thanks in advance
Finner

[davidc]

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={search...?}
               </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={search...?}
               </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={se...?}
               </url>
            </engine>
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[finner]

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={startP...?}
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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

[davidc]

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

[finner]

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

[javauser007]

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.