Google Search API - getting "regular" Google result

Question

I want to do some Google searches and get the same result as I would search on www.google.se (I'm in Sweden). I've created a Google API account to get an API key here, https://code.google.com/apis/console/b/0/.

I call the API like this:

https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=KEY&cx=013036536707430787589:_pqjad5hr1a&gl=se&cr=se&googlehost=google.se&q=bästa espressomaskin&alt=json

However this gives different results from searching on "bästa espressomaskin" like I normally would, and I can't figure out why.

The second question I have is about the parameter "cx". What is it actually and what does it do? I just used the one provided at the Google API introduction site.

I also want more than 10 results, my API Console account has some dollars on it, but how do I make it possible to set my "num"-parameter to more than 10?

Thanks

Answer 1

cx is the Google key you get for signing up for their custom search service. It allows you to customize your search. See here for more information: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/getting_started

As for results, Google says in their documentation that your results may vary. See here for more information: http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2633385

Answer 2

You can use SerpApi to access extracted data from regular Google search results.

Example of using it with curl.

curl -s 'https://serpapi.com/search?q=coffee&location=Sweden&google_domain=google.se&gl=se&hl=sv&num=100'

Here's an example of using it via the google-search-results package.

from serpapi import GoogleSearch
import os

params = {
    "engine": "google",
    "q": "coffee",
    # "q": "bästa espressomaskin",
    "location": "Sweden",
    "google_domain": "google.se",
    "gl": "se",
    "hl": "sv",
    "num": 100,
    "api_key": os.getenv("API_KEY")
}

client = GoogleSearch(params)
data = client.get_dict()

print("Organic results")

for result in data['organic_results']:
    print(f"""
Title: {result['title']}
Link: {result['link']}
Position: {result['position']}
Snippet: {result['snippet']}
""")

Check other extracted data on SerpApi playground or in the documentation.

Disclaimer: I work at SerpApi.