search-api

An API for fetching results in JSON format from search engines.

Related project

py-web-search

Base URL

http://search-api.herokuapp.com/

Endpoints

1. Search: /search
2. News: /news

Arguments

1. Query: q (required)
2. Num: num (default - 10)
3. Start: start (default - 0)
4. Recent: recent (default - None)
5. Search Engine: engine (default - randomly selects one)

Examples

http://search-api.herokuapp.com/search?q=hello&num=1&engine=bing
http://search-api.herokuapp.com/news?q=hello&recent=h&start=100

Data returned

See py-web-search for details on the data returned

Additional fields:
result['error']: True if there has been any error, False if success

NOTE: There is a random delay of 3-10 seconds, when there is no error, to prevent making too many requests which may result in the service being blocked.