Searching......

Just a few downloads to wonder about all the data floating around....

http://www.contrechoc.com/crosslab/dataBaseStuff.zip

with and extra example adding to the last post ( database_patterns_6.pde )

with examples searching the NYT, Google and Twitter

for the nyt API you need your own key, and insert it into this line:
TimesEngine.init(this,"get your own API key"); // http://developer.nytimes.com/
this line of code becomes something like:

TimesEngine.init(this,"87238269346827638476283764827638476287364872638576"); //fake key!

as indicated in the script, you can get your key here: http://developer.nytimes.com/

also, the right libraries are added (JSON). You have to put these libraries in the folder libraries inside the Processing folder containing your sketches.

And then a few links:


http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066257/What-People-Search-For-Most-Popular-Keywords

Or search for: youtube professor Hans Rosling.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M&feature=relmfu

http://lowfrequency.org/interactivity/wiki/index.php?title=Google_API_In_Processing

The google Image API is also not too difficult and can be exciting for designers:
http://lowfrequency.org/interactivity/wiki/index.php?title=GoogleJSONSearchDrawImage
You need the JSON library, but when you have the nyt examples (above) running, this library is included.

This link gives an example with 1 image, but displaying 4 images can be done like this:

in the declarations, instead of one image take an array

PImage myImg[] = new PImage[4];


in setup() load for images:

for(int i=0; i<4 ; i++){ myResult = getFirstSearchResult("bullet cluster",i); PImage getImage = new PImage(); getImage = loadImage(myResult); println( "------------>"+ str(i) + " " + myResult );
myImg[i] = getImage;
}


this to add in the draw:


for(int i=0; i<2 ; i++) for(int j=0; j<2 ; j++){ iCounter++; image(myImg[iCounter], i*width/2, j*height/2, width/2, height/2); }

and this works with a minor change in the function:

String getFirstSearchResult(String query, int imageNumber)
{


this leaves one line in this function to get more than result one:


URL url = new URL(baseURL + "?start="+str(imageNumber)+"&rsz=large&v=1.0&q=" + query);


You can find this script in this download:

http://www.contrechoc.com/crosslab/dataBaseStuff.zip

four images of the search for "bullet cluster"




















All about the Google API's can be found here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html