Can anybody get google image search to work with new update?

[krazeeKoder]

Keep getting Error 400 when using my web API key that was working with same code with previous pod version. When I try to use iOS key with bundle identifier that matches my app I get error 403. This http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24212412/google-custom-search-403-error-in-ios indicates that we should be sending our bundle identifier in the header but there is no method with field to enter bundle ID.

[krazeeKoder]

can you please confirm if I should be using an iOS api key or if I should be using a browser key? The example project seems to work with a browser api key but not with an iOS api key. If it's the case that it's configured to work only with a browse api key than I would like to propose a feature request that allows you to also send your bundle identifier in the GET header which allows you to use the correct key which is the api Key. Thank you.

[dzenbot]

Google Images used to work on the sample project. I just tried it again, and it doesn't anymore. Getting a 400 error code.
Google Images APIs must have changed, once more. I don't have much time to look at this. If this is a requirement for your project, try fixing the issue and submit a PR.

[krazeeKoder]

I'll take a look and see what I find... it's not the API that changed though because it was working with that API pre DZNPhotoPickerController update. Thanks either way :)

[ebalassanian]

I did a little digging and the URL seems correctly formatted. I am actually seeing problems with google own API explorer when I enter values for anything beyond cx, key, query, and searchType.

[ebalassanian]

I found two issues: use "start" instead of "page" and use initial value of 1 instead of 0. Also, you can only ask for 10 images at a time. To retrieve more, you have to do multiple queries which count against your query total.

[dzenbot]

Yes, the limit is 10. We should add that to the documentation in

DZNPhotoPickerController/Examples/PhotoPicker/PhotoPicker/Private.h

Line 28 in de2383f

#define kGoogleImagesSearchEngineID @"018335320449571565407:tg2a0fkobws" //cx

You cannot paginate them either, so next page at index 2, will returns the exact same 10 images from the previous page. Google Images APIs are now incredibly useless without a subscription.

[dzenbot]

So you managed to fix it? Mind submitting a PR @ebalassanian?

[ebalassanian]

I'm still trying to wrestle it to behaving. But yes, when I get it cleaned up I'll submit a PR... Bing is all kinds of messed up too. I never get MSFT. They are still using MS WORD for their documentation. Ewww!

[dzenbot]

Yeah, both of those services are broken: hard to use, requiring complicated auth and old documentation. No wonder why people use less and less these sort of integrations.

[ebalassanian]

I submitted the fixes for Google. Let me know if you have any issues and I can address them. I was a bit selfish in the coding to make this work for my purposes, but given how clunky these services are, I"m guessing any changes are going to be short lived regardless.

[ebalassanian]

hold tight.. i had a merge issue. fixing now.