Building First API

@kunal-lonhare please share the code. I prefer you share it with GitHub but you can also use the code icon (<>) above the text entry.

@ssadvisor

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify

app = Flask(__name__)

# Function to fetch keyword suggestions from Google AutoSuggest
def get_keyword_suggestions(keyword):
    base_url = "https://www.google.com/complete/search"
    params = {
        "q": keyword,
        "cp": "0",
        "client": "firefox",
        "hl": "en",
    }

    response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        suggestions = []
        data = response.json()[1]
        for suggestion in data:
            suggestions.append(suggestion[0])
        return suggestions
    else:
        return []

@app.route('/suggestions', methods=['GET'])
def keyword_suggestions():
    keyword = request.args.get('keyword')

    if not keyword:
        return jsonify({'error': 'Please provide a keyword parameter.'}), 400

    suggestions = get_keyword_suggestions(keyword)
    return jsonify({'suggestions': suggestions})

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Your code is slightly different than mine. there is /suggestions in the URL, and then you need to pass the keyword as parameter.

try something like

.../suggestions?keyword=YOUR KEYWORD

@admin I'm going to be making a post on the differences soon; later today. I've coded both your example and the example ChatGPT gave me (and others).

@amr-atef isn't coding fun? So many ways to do the same thing. Your code from Blackbox has your URL as /api/google-auto-suggestions followed by ?query=KEYWORD. 

The ChatGPT code you use /suggestions? keyword=KEYWORD in the URL.

HTH

@SSAdvisor yeah too much fun actually 😀

@admin sir it is showing like this, not actually a complete word, just one letter 🙁
Any solution to fix it up sir? I asked ChatGPT about this issue and that is what it is saying:

"I apologize for the confusion. The issue you're facing is likely due to the placeholder data used in the sample code. The code I provided in the original response does not actually fetch suggestions from Google's AutoSuggest service; it returns mock suggestions instead. To retrieve real suggestions from Google, you would need to use a legitimate Google API, but Google may have usage restrictions and require API keys.

For educational purposes, I provided a simple example. To fetch real suggestions from Google, you would need to implement a more complex solution that integrates with Google's API or use a third-party service that provides this functionality.

Please keep in mind that web scraping Google's search results may violate their terms of service, and they may block your IP address. It's essential to adhere to legal and ethical considerations when developing such applications."

@kunal-lonhare I think the problem is here:

        for suggestion in data:
            suggestions.append(suggestion[0])

I would try removing the "[0]" so that it looks like:

        for suggestion in data:
            suggestions.append(suggestion)

The reason I think this is because of something called "string indexing" which basically means all strings are an array of characters.