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uname
google image search (**updated)
Sep 30th, 2007, 8:00pm  
hi there,

i have an idea for a project in mind, but i'm not sure if i can do it with processing.

the main part of the idea is
-an input form where the user can put in a word
-then i want processing to start a google image search for this word
-one (or more) image(s) from the search results (picked randomly) are displayed

i know that it's easy to display an image from the web.
but would all that google-stuff work?
i searched the reference, forums and 3rd party libraries all day but i couldn't find anything.

thank in advance!
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anachronik
Re: google image search (+ display)
Reply #1 - Oct 1st, 2007, 1:49pm  
Sure you can do that using google api's, see this 3nd library :

http://users.design.ucla.edu/%7Etatsuyas/tools/google/index.htm

Cheers,
ana.
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uname
Re: google image search (+ display)
Reply #2 - Oct 1st, 2007, 4:53pm  
hi ana,

thanks a lot for your reply!

in the meantime is decided to use flickr instead of google, because the imeages provided by the google search are of a too varied quality/filesize.

i managed to send requests to flickr through a php script that i wrote.

the only thing is:
how can i read from the php file with processing?
i need to send one variable from the php file to processing.

is that possible?
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anachronik
Re: google image search (**updated)
Reply #3 - Oct 2nd, 2007, 5:50pm  
Hi uname

You're welcome,

Be sure to check this page http://www.processing.org/reference/libraries/index.html and especially this one http://www.realtimeart.com/switchboard/ (even if not so supported yet) and check the flickr api reference too http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ (if you manage to build it at your own).

I haven't be into using php and processing yet but i'm sure it's possible (maybe a search with php on the website should return some relevant informations).

cheers.
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uname
Re: google image search (**updated)
Reply #4 - Oct 5th, 2007, 7:08pm  
thanks!
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TimeToSurf
Re: google image search (**updated)
Reply #5 - Feb 14th, 2010, 5:13pm  
I was actually trying to do something similar but am not sure if I would need a Developer key for the Google API and where to get that ?
Any advice appreciated.

Thx Cheesy
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