Google::Search::News is not displaying any news articles. Please help.

[ShivrajDeepsagar]

Before it was Image, now even news articles are NOT being displayed from Google::Search::News. Please somebody help here. I m doing my final year project and desperately need some help. I tried it on irb. The result was NIL.

2.3.0 :008 > Google::Search::News.new(query: "Panama Papers")
`2.3.0 :009 > results = _
=> #<Google::Search::News:0x00000000e597c8 @relative_to=nil, @edition=nil, @order_by=nil, @type=:news, @Version=1.0, @offset=0, @SiZe=:large, @language=:en, @query="Panama Papers", @api_key=:notsupplied, @options={}>

2.3.0 :010 > results.each do |result|
2.3.0 :011 >     puts result
2.3.0 :012?>   end

=> nil `

[no-mercy]

Google has changed something in their logic, entire search is broken now, not only news.

[rynkwn]

@no-mercy is correct, my own implementation has also spontaneously broken down.

[aantix]

Google has deactivated the web search API... 👎

http://www.google.com/uds/GwebSearch?start=0&rsz=large&hl=en&key=notsupplied&v=1.0&q=dogs&filter=1

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&rsz=small&safe=active&q=dogs&max-results=1&v=2&alt=json

[zapnap]

Bummer :(

[ShivrajDeepsagar]

@no-mercy @aantix Is there any alternate solution for this?

[chip-and-dail]

+1 @ShivrajDeepsagar

[aantix]

@chip-and-dail Create a fork and add support for Google's Custom Search API (which means you'll be paying for these searches).

Or fork and implement a backend that scrapes (using Mechanize or something similar).

It doesn't appear that anyone (so far) has done this work for this gem.

[chip-and-dail]

Maybe can find products similar to http://www.faroo.com/ ?

[aantix]

@chip-and-dail Nice find. Looks like the API is free and with a liberal usage policy.

Create a fork and let us know. :)

[chip-and-dail]

@aantix I'm not that brainy :)

[Premnath321]

Looks like cleaning is started.