Automate Google Custom Search

What Google Custom Search is

Searches over a website or collection of websites

API host: customsearch.googleapis.com

What HumDay can read from Google Custom Search

These are the operations a schedule or a trigger can watch.

• GETReturns metadata about the search performed, metadata about the engine used for the search, and the search results./customsearch/v1
• GETReturns metadata about the search performed, metadata about the engine used for the search, and the search results./customsearch/v1/siterestrict

How automating Google Custom Search works

1. Describe the outcome. Say what you want to happen, in your own words. No node graphs, no field mapping.
2. Approve the contract. HumDay writes down exactly what it will do, what it will touch, and what it will never do. You approve it before anything is built.
3. See it proven. The program runs and shows you the result before it is allowed near your live Google Custom Search account.
4. Grant access, then go live. You approve the specific Google Custom Search operations it may use — and only those.

Automate Google Custom Search with these

• Gmail79 operations
• Google+9 operations
• Google Abusive Experience Report2 operations
• Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) URL1 operations
• Google Access Approval7 operations
• Google Access Context Manager9 operations
• Google ACME DNS2 operations
• Google Ad Exchange Buyer38 operations
• Google Ad Exchange Buyer II50 operations
• Google Ad Experience Report2 operations
• Google Admin SDK122 operations
• Google AdMob7 operations

Categories

• Analytics
• Media

Questions about Google Custom Search automation

Can HumDay connect to Google Custom Search?

Yes. HumDay reads Google Custom Search's own published API description and derives the operations from it, so there is no hand-built connector to wait for. 2 operations are documented.

Do I need to write code to automate Google Custom Search?

No. You describe the outcome you want in plain words. HumDay agrees a contract with you, writes the program, and shows you a test run before anything touches your Google Custom Search account.

What can HumDay do in Google Custom Search?

0 of the 2 documented operations change something in Google Custom Search, and 2 read from it. HumDay only ever uses the specific operations your approved contract needs.

Is my Google Custom Search account safe?

Your credentials are stored encrypted and are never shown in chat, code, or logs. Every run is limited to the operations you explicitly approved, and anything that writes to Google Custom Search is held behind that approval.

Where this came from

The operations above are read from a published API description for Google Custom Search at customsearch.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1. Descriptions are the provider’s own words, not ours. Last published 2023-04-21.