webseer

Google Autocomple API exploration

1） A simple one

Request URL：

GET http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=`search-term`

Headers:

None

Sample Response with search-term == t:

["t",
    [
        "tutuapp",
        "translate",
        "target",
        "twitter",
        "twitch",
        "tsinghua university",
        "timberland",
        "tophat",
        "tommy hilfiger",
        "toefl"
    ]
]

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2) Result with HTML tag

Request URL：

GET https://www.google.com/complete/search?q=`search-term`&cp=9&client=psy-ab&xssi=t&gs_ri=gws-wiz&hl=en&authuser=0&psi=CJ_gW_DkGfKJggfMyLqwDA.1541447435311&ei=CJ_gW_DkGfKJggfMyLqwDA&gs_mss=xwfe

Headers:

None

Sample Response with search-term == t:

)]}'
[[["t\u003cb\u003earget\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003eranslate\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003ehe grinch\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003erump\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003ewitter\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003eractor supply\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003eicketmaster\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003ehesaurus\u003c\/b\u003e",0],["t\u003cb\u003eutuapp\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]],["t\u003cb\u003ewitch\u003c\/b\u003e",0,[131]]],{"i":"xwfe","q":"1qr_JWuOmlR8R_DwfH7mXil7Mjs"}]

response are Unicode-encoded json list (with problaby prepended 4 char):

[
  [
    [
      "t<b>arget</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>ranslate</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>he grinch</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>rump</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>witter</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>ractor supply</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>icketmaster</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>hesaurus</b>",
      0
    ],
    [
      "t<b>utuapp</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
    [
      "t<b>witch</b>",
      0, [131]
    ],
  {
    "i": "xwfe",
    "q": "1qr_JWuOmlR8R_DwfH7mXil7Mjs"
  }
]