Re: Random images from Google Images

Sandman <mr@sandman.net> wrote in
news:mr-E33757.20313608092005@individual.net:

> In article <Xns96CB80386B46Evbmark@199.45.49.11>, vbMark
> <no@email.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to set up a page that will show a random image of
>> something on a web page (e.g. cats) taken from a random Google Image.
>>
>> I can't find any sample code to do this. Can someone point me to an
>> example?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Google has some really fancy API's you can use for automated queries
> (as opposed to fetching HTML data and parsing it):
>
> http://www.google.com/apis/
>
>

Well, after fooling around with it for about an hour I find this out:

"The Google Web APIs service can only be used to search Google's main
index of more than 8 billion web pages."
http://www.google.com/apis/api_faq.html#ini2

Any other ideas?

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