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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon fossfreedom

Cover search pane is using a deprecated API

Open fossfreedom opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

From issue #136 - the google seach API is apparently deprecated.

This is worrying since Google has a habit of pulling deprecated stuff at short notice.

Need to investigate what is the alternative.

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fossfreedom avatar Jan 15 '13 22:01 fossfreedom

It was deprecated long time before I embedded the Cover search plugin on this one. The custom search API(which is recommended instead of the image search doi) is really limited if you want to use it for free(only 100 searches per day), unless each user gets its own API key, which is cumbersome and I don't think most users would use it.

asermax avatar Jan 15 '13 23:01 asermax

well that's a pain in the backside!

It was apparently deprecated May 26, 2011 - with a lifespan of max 3 years. Thus this part of the plugin will stop working May 2014 ... :(

EDIT:

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element

Looks like there is no other choice than to recode this - at least there is just over a year left to think about this.

fossfreedom avatar Jan 16 '13 12:01 fossfreedom