Hello, The API key is no longer required, but preferred. It is mostly to provide a way for Google to get a hold of you if there is an issue or something. Ideally if you could start a free site somewhere that provides information on contacting you or with server side calls they want a site referrer and now an end user ip param as their apis have been getting abused quite a bit and you may have triggered one of their abuse mechanisms especially if your generating automated queries.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/a94024212ab593d0?hl=en_US# Alternatively, if your doing this as part of a university research project, then I would suggest checking this out... http://research.google.com/university/search/ Hope that helps :) Cheers! Vision Jinx On Sep 3, 4:52 pm, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm using a JSON interface to get results from google's search API but > I don't have a key and started receiving responses that I was abusing > the TOS. So I tried to get my API key and was very bummed when I found > out they are only expecting to hand out the key to people using the > results on a website... > > I've been using the API for a university research project therefore > I'm not associated to any website. I use the results internally. > > Is there any way to get an API key for server-side applications? > > Thanks in advance, > Daniel Loureiro -- 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.
