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Oct 19, 2007, 2:09 AM

Andy

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Oct 19, 2007, 2:09 AM

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Google API - signup so confusing!!!

Hi,

I just went to signup for an API key on Google (http://code.google.com/apis/) - for the Net::Google::Spelling perl module. I'm trying to write a spell checker plugin, that integrates with Google's API.

I've searches for the last 45 minutes on their site - trying to find out where I can get an API for that section - but everywhere I go, is just a dead end :/

Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Its driving me mad Pirate

TIA

Andy (mod)
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Oct 19, 2007, 2:32 AM

Wychwood

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Oct 19, 2007, 2:32 AM

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Re: [Andy] Google API - signup so confusing!!! In reply to

If you have signed up, can't you just download the module?

http://search.cpan.org/~bstilwell/Net-Google-1.0.1/lib/Net/Google/Spelling.pm

Oct 19, 2007, 2:48 AM

Andy

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Oct 19, 2007, 2:48 AM

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Hi,

Yeah, but its one API key per domain - and I only have an API key for Ultranerds at the moment. I'm trying to get one for another site, but can't find the page :(

Trying to use my API key from Ultranerds just gives an error:

/usr/bin/perl Build --makefile_env_macros 1 test
t/000-key.........#
# The Google API web service requires that you provide create a Google Account and obtain a license key
# This key is then passed with each request you make to the Google servers.
# If you do not already have a Google Account, you can sign up for one here:
# http://www.google.com/apis/
#
# Please enter your Google API key:
ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg
t/000-key.........ok
t/001-search......ok 1/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412
t/001-search......ok
t/002-spelling....ok 1/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412

# Failed test 'The correct spelling of 'neu yirk citee' is 'new york city''
t/002-spelling....NOK 5/5# at t/002-spelling.t line 42.
# got: undef
# expected: 'new york city'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 5.
t/002-spelling....dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 5
Failed 1/5 tests, 80.00% okay
t/003-cache.......ok 1/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412

Real PITA :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Oct 19, 2007, 3:53 AM

eupos

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Oct 19, 2007, 3:53 AM

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Re: [Andy] Google API - signup so confusing!!! In reply to

Andy,

According to this: http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/ and what I see from module source.

I think key for this api http://code.google.com/...axsearch/signup.html will do the job :\

Just my 2c

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Boris

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Oct 19, 2007, 4:20 AM

Andy

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Oct 19, 2007, 4:20 AM

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Hi,

Thanks, still no joy though :(

Quote:

ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg
t/000-key.........ok
t/001-search......ok 4/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412
t/001-search......ok
t/002-spelling....ok 4/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412

# Failed test 'The correct spelling of 'neu yirk citee' is 'new york city''
# at t/002-spelling.t line 42.
# got: undef
# expected: 'new york city'
t/002-spelling....NOK 5/5# Looks like you failed 1 test of 5.
t/002-spelling....dubious
Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 5
Failed 1/5 tests, 80.00% okay
t/003-cache.......ok 1/5Exception from service object: Invalid authorization key: ABQIAAAA80paa3FVspgMFqLCIjvIahRh-Q_sYP6N0TW9O8hXuvDNc0udlxT717plUuRysh0_vdbEqm5OnyfOjg at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/SOAP/Lite.pm line 3412
Use of uninitialized value in length at t/003-cache.t line 42.

(that API key is from the signup page you gave).

This is getting quite annoying Unsure

TIA for any ideas.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Oct 19, 2007, 4:33 AM

eupos

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Oct 19, 2007, 4:33 AM

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Hello again,

I've looked deep in this module and from this I think the support for Google SOAP Search API refers to Spell API too Frown

I think if you have an existing domain key for SOAP Search API, you can test this on that domain.

I know this won't help much but will make situation more clear.

Cheers,
Boris

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Oct 19, 2007, 4:39 AM

Andy

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Oct 19, 2007, 4:39 AM

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Hi,

Yeah, that's what I was thinking :/

I wish they still had a generic API key for things like Google Search, Google PR, etc Unimpressed

I've posted something on the Google support forums, to see if anyone can shed any light :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 26, 2007, 3:54 AM

Andy

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Nov 26, 2007, 3:54 AM

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Hi,

Darn, they've changed their site around again :(

I think I'm gonna give up with the Net::Google::Spelling module. It will probably work really good - but without the "API Key", its useless :(

Does anyone know of a good spell checker module? I've tried Text::ASpell - but configuring the dictionaries seems a right mission. I spent over 3 hours just looking over the documentation, and still am no where nearer to getting a dictionary setup :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 26, 2007, 5:28 AM

Andy

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Nov 26, 2007, 5:28 AM

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Hi,

For anyone interested, I finally managed to get a pretty comprehensive spell checker working with Lingua::Ispell. Here is the process for installing it, in case anyone wants to (requires you to be logged in as root)

...run each line as a seperate command!

Code:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Lingua::Ispell' 
wget http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/tars/ispell-3.3.02.tar.gz 
gzip -d ispell-3.3.02.tar.gz 
tar -xof ispell-3.3.02.tar 
cd ispell-3.3.02 
cp local.h.linux local.h 
make all 
make install

A test script, is as follows:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl 

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n"; 

	 for my $r ( spellcheck( "medicsl" ) ) { 
	   if ( $r->{'type'} eq 'ok' ) { 
	     # as in the case of 'hello' 
	     #print "'$r->{'term'}' was found in the dictionary.\n\n"; 
	   } 
	   elsif ( $r->{'type'} eq 'root' ) {  
	     # as in the case of 'hacking' 
	     print "'$r->{'term'}' can be formed from root '$r->{'root'}'\n\n"; 
	   } 
	   elsif ( $r->{'type'} eq 'miss' ) { 
	     # as in the case of 'perl' 
	     print "'$r->{'term'}' was not found in the dictionary;\n"; 
	     print "Near misses: @{$r->{'misses'}}\n\n"; 
	   } elsif ( $r->{'type'} eq 'guess' ) { 
	     # as in the case of 'salmoning' 
	     print "'$r->{'term'}' was not found in the dictionary;\n"; 
	     print "Root/affix Guesses: @{$r->{'guesses'}}\n\n"; 
	   } 
	   elsif ( $r->{'type'} eq 'compound' ) { 
	     # as in the case of 'fruithammer' 
	     print "'$r->{'term'}' is a valid compound word.\n\n"; 
	   } 
	   elsif ( $r->{'type'} eq 'none' ) { 
	     # as in the case of 'shrdlu' 
	     print "No match for term '$r->{'term'}'\n\n"; 
	   } 
	   # and numbers are skipped entirely, as in the case of 42. 
	 }

Hope that helps someone :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 26, 2007, 9:06 AM

Wychwood

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Nov 26, 2007, 9:06 AM

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If you are installing with CPAN why are you then downloading and compiling it a second time as well?

Nov 27, 2007, 1:47 AM

Andy

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Nov 27, 2007, 1:47 AM

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Hi,

The CPAN one is the perl module - but it requires a seperate program to run

Quote:

DEPENDENCIES ^

Lingua::Ispell uses the external program ispell, which is the "International Ispell", available at

http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html

http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/...spell.html#ftp-sites

Smile

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk