I use Google Custom Search API. url example;
This url working correctly a year, but return error code 500 since last week. What is the reason for this error. Any one can help me?
note: There are no invoices outstanding
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OP notes "There are no invoices outstanding" which hints at it, but I'll say it explicitly for posterity: It appears if your account is overdue, you will also get the 500-null response.Julian– Julian2014-05-09 15:36:52 +00:00Commented May 9, 2014 at 15:36
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We were also confronted by this problem. It seems that Google has changed its custom search API a bit on 2013-03-06.
We used to have the cx ID point to Google Custom Search API project ID. That no longer works and now gives this unhelpful 500 Internal Server Error response:
{
"error": {
"code": 500,
"message": null
}
}
Based on our tests, here is how you can solve the problem:
- create a new CSE engine at http://www.google.com/cse/all.
- configure it: enable image search, check to use the whole web, if needed
- click Search Engine ID button under search engine's Setup section. The new search engine ID is in form [~15 numbers]:[~10 letters and numbers] (e.g. 09238519823059291357:vsdoijv7svdkij7).
- Use this search engine ID as the cx parameter in API queries and it should work.
I hope this helps! :)
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Old question, but, for the record: I had this same result when I had a bug which created a $ character as a parameter separator in the URL, instead of an &. So, it appears that a malformed query can also result in this error being returned.
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If account is expired error is again 500
