[Gnumed-devel] google api

[Tony Lembke]

I appreciate this is somewhat off topic, but it may have a use in 
GnuMED at some future time, and it is fairly cool, and I didn't have 
any one else to tell, and perhaps some of the list haven't seen it. It 
does fit in with our general principle of 'sharing knowledge', and is a 
nice model for distributing data. If there was a drug database, or 
patient handout materials available in a similar way it would be ' a  
good thing'.

I have been experimenting with the google api,
       http://www.google.com/apis/index.html

This allows applications to perform a Google search and receive the 
results using SOAP. It is pretty neat. A python implementation 
(pygoogle) is available.
http://python.scripting.com/directory/13/soap/services/googleApi
http://diveintomark.org/projects/#pygoogle

I set it up on php. Once libraries are installed, a php script to 
display search results is as simple as

require_once('SOAP/SOAP_Google.php') ;
$google =new SOAP_Google('yourAuthenticationKey');
$result= $google -> search (array( 'query' => 'gnumed'  ));
if( false !== $result){
        print "There were ".$result->estimatedTotalResultsCount ." results<p>";
        $elements=$result->resultElements;
        foreach ($elements as $r) {
                print "<li><a href=" . $r->URL. ">" .$r->title . "</a><br>\r";
        }
        print "<pre>";
        print_r($result);
        print "</pre>";

}else{
        echo 'Query failed.' ;
}

Regards,

Tony Lembke