2015-12-06, 02:54
(2015-12-06, 02:48)marcelveldt Wrote:(2015-12-06, 02:28)BobCratchett Wrote: I haven't gone too far into the documentation - but I saw that the 'Pricing' section on the following page - https://developers.google.com/custom-sea...1/overview - doesn't talk about it being per-IP and quickly moved on!
Well, the only option I see is to let users insert their own personal API key if they want to use Google searches.
OR: Use the regular google images website and scrape the results. A pain to code but it will work.
At least the IMDB/fanart.tv options are still working.
Don't want to put a downer on this - especially as I have confidence you'll find a solution - but (from my reading) the user wouldn't just require an API key but also a search engine ID. Instantly makes it 2x as hard to do, and - as I've said previously - probably against Google's TOS. Regarding scraping results - I already regularly get Catchpa's from Google as - apparently - my searching may be suspicious. Not that this would necessarily be a problem, but handling Catchpa's is something you'd need to handle.
I really don't want to be seen as being negative on this, more inserting an element of realism. It's do-able (especially by someone as talented as you), but there are issues that need to be addressed