# Google api and web services

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-api-and-web-services/247413
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 22, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-api-and-web-services/247413 "2007-12-22T19:21:54Z")
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### Author: ![street\_spirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@street\_spirit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/street_spirit)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/google-api-and-web-services/247413/1 "2007-12-22T19:21:54Z")

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Hi all short time reader first time poster…

Today I have been trying to figure out how I could manipulate search technology to work with an application I have. At the moment I am just trying to keep it simple so just trying to get a simple google search application within a flash application working.

I first found [http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/google\_search.html](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/google_search.html) which seemed just the thing I wanted and could maybe hack around what I wanted to do. However after building it myself and then trying the example they gave (at the bottom of the page) neither worked. I get an output of 'Error opening URL ‘[http://api.google.com/search/beta2](http://api.google.com/search/beta2)’.

So I then stumbled across all this stuff about google accounts and having 1000 queries a day and such like which I all found very confusing and maybe the problem I am having? I have an account but I don’t really know what to do with it?

I think I am basically asking for an idiots guide to how I would do this, or perhaps someone can see an error in the way I am going about this?

I am also wanting to do a similar thing with a wikipedia search but have found nothing about this, any ideas?

Thanks,

David.

-using flash cs3 on osx if that matters.