Getting URL of images in Google Images with Google Custom Search API?

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I am trying to use Google Custom Search API to get URL of images in Google Images. How do I set up my custom search site to use images.google.com as its site to search? I just tried to use the Google Images url (images.google.com) when I sat up my Custom Search, but that does not seem to work.

When I try to do a REST call this is what I get:

{
"title": "Google Custom Search - tomat",
"totalResults": "0",
"searchTerms": "tomat",
"count": 10,
"inputEncoding": "utf8",
"outputEncoding": "utf8",
"safe": "off",
"cx": "THIS IS WHERE THE CX NUMBER IS"
}

I am trying to get the image URL of the three first hits on a search query. Any ideas?

try adding searchType = "image" or searchType:"image" to your parameters — Professor Abronsius
– Professor Abronsius, Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 13:35
@RamRaider I does'nt work. I get : { "title": "Google Custom Search - tomat", "totalResults": "0", "searchTerms": "tomat", "count": 10, "inputEncoding": "utf8", "outputEncoding": "utf8", "safe": "off", "cx": "THIS IS WHERE THE CX NUMBER IS", "searchType": "image" } — Praise
– Praise, Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 14:29
No examples but got that from the google documentation. When you make your request to the api you must( I would assume ) send a bunch of parameters as part of the request. If you arefetching with cURL over GET then these parameters are appended to the url as a querystring, if you are using POST they are sent as post params as a curl option. Add the searchType parameter with a value of image to these parameters before sending or share you code that you use to make the request so we can see what you are doing. — Professor Abronsius
– Professor Abronsius, Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 14:33
@RamRaider I edited the comment. I had a typo in the parameters and got the searchType to work, but it still returns 0 hits. — Praise
– Praise, Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 14:39
@RamRaider This is the query string: googleapis.com/customsearch/… — Praise
– Praise, Commented Jul 26, 2015 at 14:42

Praise · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-26 15:34:17Z

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I figured it out. You have to have Image Search enabled in the control panel and have searchType=image in the query, but what I had to add was *.google.com to sites to search. When I used the wildcard at google.com it worked. :)

answered Jul 26, 2015 at 15:34

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