= Google Custom Search This project is a Ruby API to Google's Custom Search Engine (http://www.google.com/cse). This plugin is rewrite plugin from Alex Reisner (http://github.com/alexreisner/google_custom_search.git), because the old plugin not working. == 1. Install Install either as a Rails plugin: rails plugin install git://github.com/vodafon/google_cse.git or as a gem: # add to Gemfile: gem "google_cse" # at command prompt: bundle install or as a standalone gem (outside of Rails): sudo gem install google_cse == 2. Configure You *must* define a constant in your application called CX_GOOGLE_CSE. For example, if you're using Rails, create a file config/initializers/google_cse.rb: CX_GOOGLE_CSE = "..." You can find the CX value for your custom search engine via the search control panel on Google's site (click the "Get code" link and you'll see a hidden "cx" field in the sample HTML form). == 3. Use To perform a search: results = GoogleCustomSearch.search("Hank Aaron", 0) The second parameter is a start parameter for search query. 0 - first page (1-10 result), 10 - second page, etc. The +results+ variable is now a GoogleCustomSearch::ResultSet object: results.pages # array of pages data results.results # array of result objects Iterate through the results: results.results.each do |result| result.title # result title result.url # result URL result.description # excerpt, with terms highlighted end Copyright (c) 2010 Igor Vodafon, released under the MIT license