Fast, feature rich Google Search client. Search web results, images, books, local, patents, blogs and news using an elegant Ruby API with only a single dependency.

• json gem

• Fast

• Lazy Enumeration (requests more results from google, not all at once)

• Populates Google::Search::Item’s blog, book, image, local, news, patent, video, and web

• Clean, well documented source code

• Full test coverage

- Google::Search                  | superclass of all other search classes. Is Enumerable
- Google::Search::Web             | web search.
- Google::Search::Blog            | blog search.
- Google::Search::Book            | book search.
- Google::Search::Image           | image search.
- Google::Search::Local           | local search.
- Google::Search::News            | news search.
- Google::Search::Patent          | patent search.
- Google::Search::Video           | video search.
- Google::Search::Response        | single request response, containing items. Is Enumerable
- Google::Search::Item            | single item, superclass of all other items.
- Google::Search::Item::Web       | single item containing web specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Blog      | single item containing blog specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Book      | single item containing book specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Image     | single item containing image specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Local     | single item containing local specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::News      | single item containing news specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Patent    | single item containing patent specific data.
- Google::Search::Item::Video     | single item containing video specific data.

Arbitrary key / value pairs may be passed to Google::Search.new, all options passed that are not assigned (deleted) will pass on to be part of the query string.

For argument reference visit: code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_fonje_web

Each item type (web, image, etc) is a subclass of Google::Search::Item, whose constant is Google::Search::Item::{Web, Image, Blog, etc}. Every aspect of google-search is well documented, so poke around to learn more or view spec/item_spec.rb for item attributes.

Below we simply create a new :image search, and pass a :query string. Query strings are urlencoded when Search#get_uri is called, so there is no reason to do so manually.

File.open('path/to/images.html', 'w+') do |file|
  Google::Search::Image.new(:query => 'Cookies').each do |image|
    file.write %(<img src="#{image.uri}">)
  end
end

• View the source :)

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 TJ Holowaychuk <[email protected]>

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