topic Does anyone have example code that uses Google's API? in SAS Programming

Does anyone have example code that uses Google's API?

art297 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:08:30 GMT

I want to submit a Google search, from SAS, probably using proc http. However, as I've never done it, I'm not sure where to begin. Yes, I already have an API key, but don't know what code to nest it in. Basically, I just looking to do a search and trap all of the results in an output file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Does anyone have example code that uses Google's API?

FriedEgg — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:02:42 GMT

* As far as I can tell, this are the minimum things you need to have a result sent;

* key - your API key;

* cx - goto your google APIs Console. Click on the '?' button. Click 'Try me out!'. Grab the cx var from the spawned url;

* q - your search query;

filename in temp;

filename out temp;

data _null_;

file in;

input;

put _infile_;

datalines4;

key=myapikey&cx=mycxid&q=my+query

;;;;

run;

proc http in=in out=out url="https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1" method="get"; run;

* because of issues with my installation I cannot use Proc HTTP, I should probably fix that, but as such I cannot actually test that this works in this context...;

Does anyone have example code that uses Google's API?

art297 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:47:18 GMT

Matt, Very much appreciated! I won't be able to test it until tomorrow or Thursday, but that got me exactly what I was missing.

Thanks again,

Art