Google a Montage

[wickedboy]

Any idea how this could be done in Flash?

Google a Montage

[Paul Ferrie]

Originally Posted by wickedboy

Any idea how this could be done in Flash?

Google a Montage

That's pretty cool

[3pepe3]

This looks preaty nice.
I don't know if you can feed directly the images found by google but on PHP you can load the page and get what you want...
ex.
http://images.google.fr/images?um=1&...tionscript.org

Then read this as a String (or XML) and parse the desired data using some regular expresion (or node selection)...

So one of the nodes (or part of the string) will look like this:

<a href="/imgres?imgurl=http://images.sixrevisions.com/2008/07/10-06_actionscript_dot_org.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://sixrevisions.com/flashactionscript/flash_tutorial_websites/&amp;usg=__9OBSVZhMegx2sPy-PakmDmgv1fU=&amp;h=200&amp;w=550&amp;sz=28&amp;hl= en&amp;start=3&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=K476T13K3YhQgM:& amp;tbnh=48&amp;tbnw=133&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dactionscript.org%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%2 6client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:frfficial"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:K476T13K3YhQgM:http://images.sixrevisions.com/2008/07/10-06_actionscript_dot_org.jpg" width="133" height="48"></a>

So then that you found the desired information (http://images.sixrevisions.com/2008/...pt_dot_org.jpg) you will build your own XML, JSON or string file to be send into flash.
Also you can load all this data directly on flash and parse everything when onData occurs.
Well this is just an idea...

[Paul Ferrie]

i would say that was pretty damn close!
well done.

[wickedboy]

Thank you both! Wow so it is possible then... Paul you know, don't you !
Go on, what's the secret?

wB

[asf8]

Originally Posted by wickedboy

...Wow so it is possible then...

Well since the link you posted works, of course its possible

You will have to get intimate with the Google API.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/

Flash and other Non-Javascript Environments (AS3 example code)
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsear...ntation/#fonje

I have read Yahoo's API is easier, but that was some time ago (3+ years) but I read it output cleaner XML.
Its hard to say which is easy/best now.
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/index.html
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

You will have to pick an API and go from there.

Originally Posted by wickedboy

... Paul you know, don't you... Go on, what's the secret?

Secret = Lots of learning and determination + mucho testing

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Hi 3pepe3, long time no see. Hope your doing well, good to see you.

[CyanBlue]

Welcome back, 3pepe3...

I'm bored...

//
function loadGoogleImage(_s:String):Void
{
//  trace("Function loadGoogleImage : _s = " + _s);
    var searchURL:String = "http://images.google.com/images";
    var _lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
    _lv.q = _s;
    _lv.onLoad = function () {}
    _lv.onData = function (raw)
    {
        parseData(raw);
    }
    _lv.sendAndLoad(searchURL, _lv, "GET");
}

function parseData(_d:String):Void
{
//  trace("Function parseData");
    var idxS:Number = -1;
    var idxE:Number = -1;
    var u:String = "";
    
    idxS = _d.indexOf("<a href=/imgres?imgurl=") + 23;
    for (var i:Number = idxS ; i < _d.length ; i++)
    {
        if (i > idxS)
        {
            loadImages();
            break;
        }
        
        idxS = _d.indexOf("<img src=", idxS) + 9;
        idxE = _d.indexOf(" ", idxS);
        u = _d.substr(idxS, idxE - idxS);
        
        if (u.substr(0, 4) == "http")
        {
            trace(idxS + " : " + idxE + " : " + u);
            img_arr.push(u);
        }
    }
}

function loadImages():Void
{
    trace("Function loadImages : Do your loading stuff...");
}

var img_arr:Array = new Array();

var searchTerm:String = "flash";
loadGoogleImage(searchTerm);

[asf8]

Wow, cool stuff CyanBlue! Impressive boredom output indeed. That is some interesting code to digest. [Q] Which part limits the number of items returned? Looking forward to see what else you come up with if you remain bored ;-) Thanks for sharing.

[CyanBlue]

Well... Google Image spits up 20 images per page, so that's where your limit is... I am only storing all the external urls to an array... You can do whatever you want with the img_arr once it is populated...

[asf8]

Originally Posted by CyanBlue

Well... Google Image spits up 20 images per page, so that's where your limit is... I am only storing all the external urls to an array... You can do whatever you want with the img_arr once it is populated...

The array part I got. But I couldnt figure where you were setting the number of images.... but now that you mention 20, D'oh, I see ;-) Wonder using your setup if there is a way to get around that to load more than 20 unique returns... hmmm

Again thanks for sharing thats great stuff CyanBlue.