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Analyze Google Search Results in Infragistics Reveal
Use the CData API Server to create an OData API on top of Google Search results and visualize live Google Search results in Ingragistics Reveal.
Reveal is a data visualization solution provided by Infragistics and can be paired with the CData API Server to build dynamic dashboards from live Google Search results. The CData API Server generates an OData API for Google Search, which is natively consumable in Reveal. In this article, we walk through connecting to Google Search in API Server and connecting to the API Server from Infragistics Reveal to create a simple dashboard.
Connect to Google Search from API Server
CData API Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.
- Open API Server and click Settings -> Connection -> Add Connection
- Select "Google Search"
- Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Google Search.
To search with a Google custom search engine, you need to set the CustomSearchId and ApiKey connection properties.
To obtain the CustomSearchId property, sign into Google Custom Search Engine and create a new search engine.
To obtain the ApiKey property, you must enable the Custom Search API in the Google API Console.
Add Google Search Resource Definitions in API Server
After connecting to Google Search, create Resources, which represent API endpoints for Google Search results.
- Click Settings -> Resources -> Add Resource
- Select the Google Search connection
- Select the table you wish to retrieve and click Next
- (Optional) Edit the resource to select specific fields and more
- Save the settings
Add an API Server User
Create a User to connect to Google Search from Reveal through API Server.
- Click Settings -> Users
- Click Add
- Configure a User with access to the Google Search Connection and Resource(s)
(Optional) Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
When accessing and connecting to multiple different domains from an application such as Ajax, there is a possibility of violating the limitations of cross-site scripting. In that case, configure the CORS settings in Settings -> Server.
- Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS): ON
- Allow all domains without '*': ON
- Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS
- Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization
Save the changes to the settings.
Create a Dashboard in Reveal
With the API Server configured, we can visualize Google Search results in Reveal.
- Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New
- Click Data Source -> OData Feed
- Specify the API Server API endpoint URL, for example: https://serverurl/api.rsc
- Select Generic Credentials and specify the API Server username and authentication token
- Select the entity you wish to visualize
- Select fields and choose a chart type
More Information & Free Trial
At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live Google Search results. For more information on creating OData feeds from Google Search (and more than 150 other sources), visit the API Server page. Download a free, 30-day trial and start working live Google Search results in tools that consume OData APIs.
