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How can I use google's image api to custom search for images and import them all?

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What have you tried so far? – Searke Mar 1 at 20:38
I used to just Import[] a search result page, but this is not possible anymore... Seems like v9 should have integration with google.images api – M.R. Mar 1 at 21:33
This is a good question, why have people downvoted this? Scraping images is very common tool that people need. – M.R. Mar 1 at 21:34
I don't know, this is an operation that most image processing people need. wolfram|alpha query and exampledata will not suffice most times... – user4364 Mar 1 at 21:42
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I think people are downvoting because you didn't try anything or post what you have done before submitting the question. – s0rce Mar 1 at 22:06

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Using the (deprecated but easy) API documented here,

result = Import[
  "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q=fuzzy%20monkey", "JSON"]

Import["url" /. ("results" /. ("responseData" /. result))[[1]]]

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If you hit the service too many times, it'll lock you out for a while.

Here's another example that gives the 24th-32nd results:

result = Import["https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&start=24&rsz=8&q=fuzzy+monkey", "JSON"];
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