Around the captcha or checking the status codes from the API? In my
apps if I get a non-200 response I give an Oops with a link to error
codes and provide a try again link.

On Feb 10, 10:56 am, Phil-H <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is what i believed to be the case, although i'm looking for a
> good way around the problem (assuming the querys sent by the program
> are correct)
>
> On Feb 10, 5:52 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can get at least a couple of other response codes. I've seen 400, which 
> > is a bad query. They also send a code for those who get banned. In general, 
> > I believe they are a subset of the HTTP status codes.
>
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> > On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Phil-H wrote:
>
> > > Its not automated and as far as i know does follow the TOS, here is
> > > the process that occurs:
>
> > > User selects a document
> > > User presses a button to generate X number of random phrases with Y
> > > words each
> > > User can add additional phrases using a text box
> > > User presses a button to search for the phrases
> > > Search terms are sent to google
> > > Search results are returned as JSON objects
>
> > > My question is whether or not Google will return a response status
> > > other than 200 at any time, since when using Google manually i've in
> > > the past been asked to enter the word from an image to continue.
>
> > > Thanks for the quick response,
> > > Phil
>
> > > On Feb 10, 5:39 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
>
> > >> The TOS does not allow automated queries so if that's what your doing
> > >> you may very likely get blocked by the Goog.
>
> > >> Is that what you have been doing or did I mis-understand your
> > >> question?
>
> > >> Since this has been an issue in the past they are also asking for
> > >> people using server side queries to pass along the client IP (userip
> > >> param) so if your not passing valid client (end user) IP addys your
> > >> chances of getting blocked just increased also.
>
> > >> Additional info in this post here 
> > >> >>http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/t...
>
> > >> Please make a follow up post if I missed what you were asking. :)
>
> > >> Cheers!
> > >> Vision Jinx
>
> > >> On Feb 10, 10:09 am, Phil-H <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>> Hi,
>
> > >>> I'll start off by explaining my situation; I'm using JSON objects and
> > >>> the Google AJAX APIs in a Java program as my degree final year
> > >>> dissertation project. The program works by taking a document,
> > >>> selecting x random phrases from the document and searching Google for
> > >>> them using the APIs.
>
> > >>> It has worked as intended thus far but I expect that at some point
> > >>> rather than returning the request status 200 along with the search
> > >>> results Google will try to check that my client is not just a machine
> > >>> spamming the system with searches and produce an anti-spam image. My
> > >>> questions are:
>
> > >>> 1. Does this in fact happen as it occasionally does when using a
> > >>> Google search manually?
>
> > >>> 2. What can i do to get around this?
>
> > >>> My thoughts are that I'd have to display the image through the program
> > >>> and return the user input but is there any support for this in the
> > >>> AJAX APIs using JSON objects?
>
> > >>> Thanks in advance,
> > >>> Phil
>
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