I don't believe they display a captcha when you get banned from the API. Rather, they return a JSON object which includes an error message that encourages you to contact Google to resolve the situation.
Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Phil-H wrote: > Well around the captcha basicallly yea. What you've said there is > another possible solution in this case, i'm just trying to check all > my options before choosing one! I don't suppose you know if there's > any way of responding with the word from the captcha if i did want to > display it to the user through my program and offer a text box? > > On Feb 10, 8:14 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> >>>> Jeremy R. Geerdes >>>> Effective website design & development >>>> Des Moines, IA >> >>>> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com >>>> [email protected] >> >>>> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan >>>> Church! >> >>>> 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 >> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "Google AJAX APIs" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group >>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. 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