# Best library to work Google API?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-library-to-work-google-api/120852>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 21, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-library-to-work-google-api/120852 "2007-11-21T05:47:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-library-to-work-google-api/120852/1 "2007-11-21T05:47:06Z")

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I’m going to build a google search tool (no it’s not for spam).

What’s the best library for working with Google?

I’m not building a website or anything, but would Rails work better for  
extracting data and outputting to a text file or offline webpage?

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**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-library-to-work-google-api/120852/2 "2007-11-21T09:48:37Z")

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Feng T. wrote:

> I’m going to build a google search tool (no it’s not for spam).
> 
> What’s the best library for working with Google?
> 
> I’m not building a website or anything, but would Rails work better for  
> extracting data and outputting to a text file or offline webpage?

[http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-google/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-google/)

you could also look into

[http://scrubyt.org/scrapin-google-in-no-sec/](http://scrubyt.org/scrapin-google-in-no-sec/)

you do not need rails for this at all - I think it would just make  
things more complicated actually.

Cheers,  
Peter

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[http://www.rubyrailways.com](http://www.rubyrailways.com)  
[http://scrubyt.org](http://scrubyt.org)

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**Author:** ![pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@pood](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pood)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-library-to-work-google-api/120852/3 "2007-11-24T23:28:27Z")

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Hmm, since they deprecated the SOAP api, wouldn’t ruby-google be  
useless? I can’t get a key anymore ;(