Hello, I'm using a somewhat nifty trick to identify when Google believes a page was published. (Yes, I get this is not *exactly *what is meant by that date, but it's close enough -- and it's what I'm after.) By searching for allinurl:http://www.whatever.com and adding &as_qdr=y15 to the end of the executed query string (e.g., in the address bar), Google will preface the content section on the results page -- the characters immediately beneath the green URL -- to include the date I mention above.
Now this date often appears automatically if the date is (obviously) included in the post. For example, a search for a New York Times article using "allinurl:" needs no as_qdr=y[xx] to force Google to output the date -- it's just there. What I'd like to do is programmatically extract this date for hundreds of URLs I have in a database. To do so, I've considered using the deprecated "AJAX API" (e.g., sending GET request to "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=allinurl:http://www.whatever.com";) and appending "&as_qdr=...". However, it's been documented that this API simply ignores such query modifiers. Instead, Google (and other forum posters) suggests that you include "daterange:*x*-*y*" *in the* query where *x *is the beginning date and y is the ending date (both in the Julian not Gregorian calendar). For example, they suggest simply appending "%20daterange:x-y" rather than adding another parameter with "&...". *While this works in filtering the results to the specified dates, it does NOT force the publish/index/whatever date to be prepended to the "content" field in the returned JSON.* I'm stuck and thus asking for help. At this point the only thing I can think to do is programmatically make calls to http://www.google.com as if I were a browser, but this is of course against Google's ToS and likely to be (automatically) prohibited unless I take all sorts of care to truly emulate a human searcher. Soo kind forum readers -- any ideas? Thanks, Patrick -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To view this message on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-ajax-search-api/-/NcpQdgODMWsJ For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
