I don't know if it's very relevant here, but we've released a gem that uses our own backend to get back Google results: https://github.com/serpapi/google-search-results-ruby

Hopefully it will be helpful.

I'm working on a feature for the faker gem that would utilize this gem, and anytime I run the tests for it, it prints this message a lot.

I was able to solve it by declaring @each_response as nil in the initialize, but would love feedback from others as well

I'm using Google::Search::Web for results but from today I'm facing the issue and get response (The Google Web Search API is no longer available)

{"responseData"=>nil, "responseDetails"=>"The Google Web Search API is no longer available. Please migrate to the Google Custom Search API (https://developers.google.com/custom-search/)", "responseStatus"=>403}

It seems some searches do not get results. When searching for 8715664020388 i get no results through google-search gem. When I google it myself, I do get search results. I encounter the problem with a lot of queries.

Is it possible to do a search with a date range?

Google::Search now returns for about 60 results. Is it okay or it can be handled somehow?

Going through code i see you have the "rsz" query option, but how can i set that when doing an image search?

Hi TJ,

I've checked out your gem because I need to create a toy metasearch engine, the thing is that I need to have proxy support to pass through my university network, and I was about to create a patch.

As you already know, adding proxy support is trivial but, in order to keep the excellent usability of the API I was wondering which one of the following approaches would you prefer me to follow:

• On the one side, I can keep the stateless, self-containing style of the queries and do what's necessary to allow something like this:

Google::Search::Web.new(:query => 'naked celebrities',  :proxy => 'http://proxy.uniovi.es:8888').each do |web_result|
   #... Whatever
 end

• On the other side, it could be interesting to have a means of configuring a proxy for all the queries, as it is very likely that someone needing a proxy to submit a query, would need it to submit all of them:

Google::Search::Defaults.set(:proxy, 'http://proxy.uniovi.es:8888')
Google::Search::Web.new(:query => 'naked celebrities').each{ | web_result | ... }
Google::Search::Images.new(:query => 'angelina jolie').each{ | image | ... }
Google::Search::Local.new(:query => 'foo bar').each{ |place| ... }

Both alternatives can be complementary.

Do you think that having a Defaults object would break your API orthogonality? having it would ease the case of needing a proxy, which IMHO is not that uncommon, but I would like to know your opinion.

Regards,

Miguel

I am trying to require google-search gem inside a helper module, but getting the following error on require cannot load such file -- google-search. This is working well at the local system, but causing problems at the production server. Though I can find the gem when I run gem list. Unable to figure out the problem.

module TestHelper
   require 'google-search'

end

I'm trying to simulate a search like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:xapo.*
Results: xapo.com xapo.ch xapo.de xapo.info xapo.at xpo.co.pt etc...

What I have is something like this:

q = Google::Search::Web.new query: "site:xapo.*"

q.get_uri
# http://www.google.com/uds/GwebSearch?start=0&rsz=large&hl=en&key=notsupplied&v=1.0&q=site%3Axapo.%2A&filter=1

q.take 100
# Results: xapo.com foo.xapo.com etc...

The results are way different. What am I doing wrong?

Before it was Image, now even news articles are NOT being displayed from Google::Search::News. Please somebody help here. I m doing my final year project and desperately need some help. I tried it on irb. The result was NIL.

2.3.0 :008 > Google::Search::News.new(query: "Panama Papers")
`2.3.0 :009 > results = _
=> #<Google::Search::News:0x00000000e597c8 @relative_to=nil, @edition=nil, @order_by=nil, @type=:news, @Version=1.0, @offset=0, @SiZe=:large, @language=:en, @query="Panama Papers", @api_key=:notsupplied, @options={}>

2.3.0 :010 > results.each do |result|
2.3.0 :011 >     puts result
2.3.0 :012?>   end

=> nil `

Hi, when I do a search on Google, I get 115,000 items, but with the gem, I get 64. Should they match?

When I first require 'roo' and then require 'google-search' I get an error

TypeError: Google is not a module

Again, I first require 'google-search' and then require 'roo' I get this error

TypeError: Google is not a class

See below for what actually happened on irb

{12:30}[1.9.3]~ ➭ irb
1.9.3-p0 :001 > require 'roo'
=> true
1.9.3-p0 :002 > require 'google-search'
TypeError: Google is not a module
from /home/sagar/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/google-search-1.0.3/lib/google-search/version.rb:2:in <top (required)>' from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:inrequire'
from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:55:in require' from /home/sagar/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/google-search-1.0.3/lib/google-search.rb:26:in<top (required)>'
from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:in require' from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:inrescue in require'
from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in require' from (irb):2 from /home/sagar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/irb:16:in

Over the last two days Google::Search::Image.new(:query => "anything") has been returning 0 results. I haven't touched any part of my google search code, and the results used to return perfectly. Google::Search::Web also still works. Is this specific to my app or has something happened with Google? Thanks for your help, great gem!