Google custom search for images only

Question

Since Google image search API is deprecated, one should use Google custom search API for this.

I've made a small example using it. My problem is I want to return google image search results only. Whereby this shows web results, and the user may switch to the image result. How can I show only the image results by default?

<div id="cse" style="width: 100%;">Loading</div> <script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript">   google.load('search', '1', {language : 'hu'});   google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {     var customSearchOptions = {         enableImageSearch: true,         imageSearchOptions: {               layout: google.search.ImageSearch.LAYOUT_CLASSIC         }     };      var options = new google.search.DrawOptions();     options.setAutoComplete(true);      var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('XXX', customSearchOptions);      customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.LARGE_RESULTSET);     customSearchControl.setAutoCompletionId('XXX');      customSearchControl.draw('cse', options);   }, true); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.google.com/cse/style/look/default.css" type="text/css" /> 

The API documentation is quite poor, it only describes how to add additional results.

Answer 1

Google images search is now supported in the Custom Search Engine API. See the API parameters section of this page. I'm using the API with python and for my application I just specify the parameter in the API call.

searchType = "image" 

See this post on the cse blog.

EDIT: As Marc points out in his comment below, you need to click "Enable image search" in your CSE console.