com.antelmann.net
Class Google

java.lang.Object
  com.antelmann.net.Google

All Implemented Interfaces:

ThirdParty

public class Google
extends Object
implements ThirdParty

Google is a simple wrapper around the Google.com search API capabilities to make it more easily usable.

This class requires googleapi.jar, which can be obtained from http://www.google.com/apis

Author:

Holger Antelmann

See Also:

GoogleSearch

Field Summary

static int	MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS
static int	MAX_TOTAL_RESULTS

Constructor Summary

Google(String key)

Method Summary

int	numberOfResults(String searchString)
int	pageRank(String urlPattern, String searchString, int maxRank) returns the rank of the first page where the urlPattern is found within the search result produced by a query using the searchString; 0 is returned if the URL is not within the result
com.google.soap.search.GoogleSearchResult	search(String searchString)
com.google.soap.search.GoogleSearchResult	search(String searchString, int beginIndex)
String	spell(String text) returns a spelling suggestion for the given text from Google

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS

public static final int MAX_SEARCH_RESULTS

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Constant Field Values

MAX_TOTAL_RESULTS

public static final int MAX_TOTAL_RESULTS

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

Google

public Google(String key)

Method Detail

pageRank

public int pageRank(String urlPattern,
                    String searchString,
                    int maxRank)
             throws IOException

returns the rank of the first page where the urlPattern is found within the search result produced by a query using the searchString; 0 is returned if the URL is not within the result

Parameters:

maxRank - limits the number of result entries searched and must be between 1 and 1000

Throws:

IOException

numberOfResults

public int numberOfResults(String searchString)
                    throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

search

public com.google.soap.search.GoogleSearchResult search(String searchString)
                                                 throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

search

public com.google.soap.search.GoogleSearchResult search(String searchString,
                                                        int beginIndex)
                                                 throws IOException

Parameters:

beginIndex - denotes the first index returned; starts with 0

Throws:

IOException

spell

public String spell(String text)
             throws IOException

returns a spelling suggestion for the given text from Google

Throws:

IOException