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Wsdl The Google API (search Google With Ruby)

10.21.2005

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<codE>
require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
$KCODE = "UTF8"
key = 'LVJnAm5QFHblahblahblah your key here'

#create driver
wsdl = "http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl"
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
query = "your query string here"
start = 0
max = 10
  
# see http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/browser/trunk/sample/wsdl/googleSearch/wsdlDriver.rb
@results = driver.doGoogleSearch( key, query, start, max, true, "", true, 'lang_en', '','')
snippets = @results.resultElements.collect { |r| r.snippet } # you can get all kinds'a' info here
self.update_attribute(:html, snippets.join("\n")) # or whatever

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Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2011/03/24 - 9:34pm

hello everyone, i m new to ruby and i seen this wsdl the google api for ruby. Actually i not familiar with ruby. My aim is to get google api working in ruby. so can anyone give me the step by step procedure to do it.. Plz let me know.. Thanks in advance