Is there a Ruby gem to use the Google Images API?

Question

I need to talk with the Google Images API on my Rails Application. Is there a Ruby gem to do this? I found an old gem that used the deprecated API.

Answer 1

There is a gem called google_custom_search_api that uses the newer google custom search API: https://github.com/wiseleyb/google_custom_search_api

You can limit this to image search by specifying image for the searchType parameter, like so:

 results = GoogleCustomSearchApi.search("poker", {"searchType" => "image"})

Answer 2

Also there is another gem called image_suckr - https://github.com/maurimiranda/image_suckr also you can do somthing similar directly in Google Image Search API

suckr = ImageSuckr::GoogleSuckr.new
suckr.get_image_url({"q" => "car"})