Try http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=macbook it works for me.
Curl won't follow redirects unless you tell it to buts its best practice to just use the correct URL. If you wanted your code to work you'd need to add -L to tell curl to follow locations right now its stopping at the 301 redirect because your not telling it otherwise On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 19:58, Sam Bell <samueljamesb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been trying all day to get something working with ruby and > net::HTTP, but to no avail, so I've moved to curl for now, hopefully > this should be easily to follow... > > All I'm trying to do is search /feeds/snippets, and although in future > I'll include my API key in the url, for now I'll paste what I try each > time: > > curl --header "X-Google-Key: key=xxx" -I > http://google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=macbook > > >> > > HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently > Location: http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=macbook > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff > Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:51:42 GMT > Expires: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:51:42 GMT > Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 > Server: sffe > Content-Length: 249 > X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block > > > Surely I should get an XML document in response, not this? Any ideas? > > Any help at all would be greatly appreciated... thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Base Data API" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-base-data-api@googlegroups.com > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-base-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-base-data-api%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en. > > -- Thanks, Tom Wilson Web and Media Developer e: t...@tomthedeveloper.com w: www.tomthedeveloper.com Google Base Tools - http://dev.tomthedeveloper.com/googlebase Featured Project : http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com/2008/02/google-base-competitor-analysis.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-base-data-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-base-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-base-data-api?hl=en.