You have to love the web.
Within a couple of days of Google announcing the move from web services to Javascript libraries for search, someone has already written a wire-compatible version of the old SOAP API that is implemented in terms of screen scraping the result of making a LoREST/HTML call against the public Google site.
http://evilapi.com/
Ah, the beauty of transparent data formats...
PS: Wasn't there a query string modifier that told Google to return XML (or RSS) rather than HTML?
Posted
Dec 21 2006, 02:47 PM
by
don-box