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Google API Tool - Sensepost AURA

Tuesday, 24 April 2007

As many longtime Google fans know, Google provided a programming interface that allowed developers to write tools that could (among other things) query Google. Recently, that API has been pulled, meaning that several tools (like Wikto and BiDiBLAH) that relied on the API are now broken. Sensepost has come to the rescue with... AURA (Api Usable / Re-usable Again). This application is a local proxy that intercepts Google API calls, converts them via page scraping and returns the results in a format that mimics what the old API calls would have returns. This (in essence) fixes tools that rely on the doGoogleSearch API function. Note that Google does not allow page scraping, and use of page scraping tools violates Google's terms of service. More info is available from this Sensepost research page.

 

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