Thank you, Jockem.
Can you please provide me with the example. I can create the search form, i am not sure what to do with the JS fetch code and how to display the results.
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<!-- when the form is submitted, either with submit button or ENTER key, call search() --><formonsubmit="return search()"><inputtype="text"id="query"></form><!-- show the results in this DIV --><divid="results"></div><script>functionsearch(){constcx='009833334622897458665:rtvizlb'// your search engine id constapikey='AIzaSyAmvBcHwO9VtVny-cVrP7IhXJ'// your api key/* select the input element */letinput=document.getElementById('query')/* fetch the following URL that includes apikey, cx and the value of input */fetch(`https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=${apikey}&cx=${cx}&q=${input.value}`).then(response=>response.text()).then(text=>{letresult=JSON.parse(text)result.items.forEach(item=>{/* add it to your results div */// item.link, item.title, ...etc})})/* make sure the form isn't actually submitted by returning false */returnfalse}</script>
More details about what happens with fetch:
/* this fetches the URL and resolves response */fetch(`https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=${apikey}&cx=${cx}&q=${input.value}`)/* this resolves only the responseText */.then(response=>response.text())/* parse the responseText to Object */JSON.parse(text)
The Object parsed from JSON looks like this:
Each item in result.items looks like this:
I'll let it up to you figuring out how to add an item to your result DIV. (create an <a> element and set its href attribute to item.link)
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To use Google Suggest, you need a server. Cross Domain XMLHttpRequests are not allowed. I have actually created an NPM module for Google Suggest that does exactly that. It fetches suggestions from Google Search.
All you need to do is create a server that pipes the response to the client and then use some jQuery auto-complete plugin to render them visually.
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Thanks for the follow up Jochem, however I'm more interested in receiving suggestions based on the sites listed in my search engine rather than the entire web. Recently I found this function (google.search.CustomSearchControl.attachAutoCompletion) so I'm going to try implement it in my project, thanks again.
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Thank you, Jockem.
Can you please provide me with the example. I can create the search form, i am not sure what to do with the JS fetch code and how to display the results.
More details about what happens with fetch:
The Object parsed from JSON looks like this:
Each item in result.items looks like this:
Awesome, thank you so much Jochem.
I got it:)
Hi Jochem!
Great tut! I was wondering if It's possible to add the autocomplete feature on this form input
To use Google Suggest, you need a server. Cross Domain XMLHttpRequests are not allowed. I have actually created an NPM module for Google Suggest that does exactly that. It fetches suggestions from Google Search.
All you need to do is create a server that pipes the response to the client and then use some jQuery auto-complete plugin to render them visually.
Hi Jochem, thanks for the advise, very useful. I'll look into this.
Did you figure it out? Does it need an article?
Thanks for the follow up Jochem, however I'm more interested in receiving suggestions based on the sites listed in my search engine rather than the entire web. Recently I found this function (google.search.CustomSearchControl.attachAutoCompletion) so I'm going to try implement it in my project, thanks again.