How do I use the new Google search API in VB.NET?

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I am making an application that will get any Disney links in Google for the father of my cousin. The Google Search API is no longer available. It is, but it's another version, and I don't know how to work with it.

Dim search As New GwebSearchClient("")
Dim results As IList(Of IWebResult) = search.Search("Disney Kids", 64, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
For Each result As IWebResult In results
    ListBox1.Items.Add(result.Url)
Next

The old API:
Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.

The new API which I get an error on Visual Studio saying:

[response status:403] The Google Web Search API is no longer available. Please
migrate to the Google Custom Search API
(Custom Search Google Developers)

How can I do this?

What I have tried:

I've tried the following code but it tells me that the Google Web Search API is no longer available.

Dim search As New GwebSearchClient("")
Dim results As IList(Of IWebResult) = search.Search("Disney Kids", 64, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
ListBox1.Items.Clear()
For Each result As IWebResult In results
    ListBox1.Items.Add(result.Url)
Next

Posted 23-Jun-16 7:51am

Dawn1el

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 14:42pm

What part of Google documentation is a problem? I mean, it's hard to figure out what kind of help you may possibly need. I hope writing the whole bunch of documentation on your request is not an option.
What have you tried so far?
(Apparently, what you wrote in your "What I have tried" section is no longer applicable. What else?)
—SA

Dawn1el 23-Jun-16 15:17pm

I've tried to use the old API but no success.
The problem now is that I can't understand the new API and need help with that.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 15:29pm

Again, it's hard to see what help would you may need. It's hard to teach understanding.
—SA

Dawn1el 23-Jun-16 17:19pm

I don't know how to implement the new API on my application like I did with the old one.
I need a code that works with the new Google Search API.
I would be much appreciated.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 18:26pm

You, see, you hardly can expect that someone write a code sample of such request. I suggest you read the documentation and write some code. At least you could show what is the problem, if you face any.
—SA

Dawn1el 23-Jun-16 19:18pm

http://hintdesk.com/c-how-to-use-google-custom-search-api/comment-page-1/

I found that code, Installed NuGet, downloaded Google.Apis.Customsearch.v1 package but the thing is that It's giving me some errors (picture):
http://goo.gl/JZdv3t

Called imports:
Google.Apis.Customsearch.v1.Data
Google.Apis.Customsearch.v1

And this is displaying on a cmd, I need it to be displayed on my Listbox but don't know how.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 20:08pm

I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but this is how it looks to me: you are not trying to do any development effort, only trying to find some code samples and hope they do what you want to achieve. If so, you probably need to understand that it is pretty much counter-productive.
—SA

Dawn1el 23-Jun-16 20:16pm

I'm new at programming, I have to learn somehow... Getting my problems solved is one of many steps.
And I'm trying to make an effort, I really do but I can't understand somethings like working with API's, reading documentations and converting codes (from C# to VB.NET).
I just need a hand to get my problem solved.
None the less, you're right.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 21:49pm

Then perhaps you need to embrace the idea "better less but better". We don't mind giving you a hand, but you have to do your homework first. So far, you did not reach us with your hand.
You ought to get to much simpler tasks first, to get some experience and confidence. If you cannot understand how to work with API, you need experience working with API. How else?

I have no idea why would you need to "convert" from C# to VB.NET, but it's easy to do automatically. On sure tool is ILSpy. But this is not really important. Main thing is to write code, not to copy it, no matter if it is in the translated form or not. I know from long experience: you don't learn much reading some code you don't understand. You learn when you read on theory, documentation and try to study this matter by writing code. Few lines written by yourself beat many pages you get from other developers. You will read code written by others when you have something written by you, when you want to compare and weight quality of your work; only then it will be useful.

—SA

Dawn1el 23-Jun-16 22:50pm

If you don't want to help me It's alright, I'll just tell my uncle that I can't do this.
Thanks for the words anyways, appreciate it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Jun-16 22:55pm

You are welcome, and thank you for your understanding. But... don't you follow the same line? I advise seriously: do everything independently. You are wrong about "don't want to help". It's just the opposite: I want to help, but you are not trying to help us to help you. You really need to realize it. We will gladly help you if you have some real questions.
—SA

Dawn1el 24-Jun-16 12:51pm

Can I use RegEX instead of using the Google Search API to get the links from Google?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Jun-16 14:50pm

Do be serious.

In principle, you can, but on what set of files? Do you understand how Google works? It's a huge cache, "a copy of Internet", indexed with great redundancy, updated on regular basis. It is supplied to the users just as a service. Want to do the same? Or do you want to do scrapping and recurrent search on the fly? How much time do you want the user to spend? Days? years?

But if you want to perform the search only on your site, it would not be a problem.

—SA

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