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    Copyright
    Dedication
    Preface
    Ch. 1. Strings
    Ch. 2. Numbers
    Ch. 3. Date and Time
    Ch. 4. Arrays
    Ch. 5. Hashes
    Ch. 6. Files and Directories
    Ch. 7. Code Blocks and Iteration
    Ch. 8. Objects and Classes
    Ch. 9. Modules and Namespaces
    Ch. 10. Reflection and Metaprogramming
    Ch. 11. XML and HTML
    Ch. 12. Graphics and Other File Formats
    Ch. 13. Databases and Persistence
    Ch. 14. Internet Services
    Ch. 15. Web Development: Ruby on Rails
    Ch. 16. Web Services and Distributed Programming
    Recipe 16.1. Searching for Books on Amazon
    Recipe 16.2. Finding Photos on Flickr
    Recipe 16.3. Writing an XML-RPC Client
    Recipe 16.4. Writing a SOAP Client
    Recipe 16.5. Writing a SOAP Server
    Recipe 16.6. Searching the Web with Google's SOAP Service
    Recipe 16.7. Using a WSDL File to Make SOAP Calls Easier
    Recipe 16.8. Charging a Credit Card
    Recipe 16.9. Finding the Cost to Ship Packages via UPS or FedEx
    Recipe 16.10. Sharing a Hash Between Any Number of Computers
    Recipe 16.11. Implementing a Distributed Queue
    Recipe 16.12. Creating a Shared "Whiteboard"
    Recipe 16.13. Securing DRb Services with Access Control Lists
    Recipe 16.14. Automatically Discovering DRb Services with Rinda
    Recipe 16.15. Proxying Objects That Can't Be Distributed
    Recipe 16.16. Storing Data on Distributed RAM with MemCached
    Recipe 16.17. Caching Expensive Results with MemCached
    Recipe 16.18. A Remote-Controlled Jukebox
    Ch. 17. Testing, Debugging, Optimizing, and Documenting
    Ch. 18. Packaging and Distributing Software
    Ch. 19. Automating Tasks with Rake
    Ch. 20. Multitasking and Multithreading
    Ch. 21. User Interface
    Ch. 22. Extending Ruby with Other Languages
    Ch. 23. System Administration
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    Chapter 16. Web Services and Distributed... > Searching the Web with Google's SOAP...

    Recipe 16.6. Searching the Web with Google's SOAP Service

    16.6.1. Problem

    You want to use Google's web services to perform searches and grab their results within your Ruby application.

    16.6.2. Solution

    Google exposes a SOAP API to its search functionality, and some other miscellaneous methods like spellcheck. Call these methods with the SOAP client that comes with Ruby's standard library:


      

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