Method: cse.list

Returns metadata about the search performed, metadata about the engine used for the search, and the search results.

HTTP request

GET https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Query parameters

Parameters
c2coff

string

Enables or disables Simplified and Traditional Chinese Search.

The default value for this parameter is 0 (zero), meaning that the feature is enabled. Supported values are:

  • 1: Disabled

  • 0: Enabled (default)

cr

string

Restricts search results to documents originating in a particular country. You may use Boolean operators in the cr parameter's value.

Google Search determines the country of a document by analyzing:

  • the top-level domain (TLD) of the document's URL

  • the geographic location of the Web server's IP address

See the Country Parameter Values page for a list of valid values for this parameter.

cx

string

The Programmable Search Engine ID to use for this request.

dateRestrict

string

Restricts results to URLs based on date. Supported values include:

  • d[number]: requests results from the specified number of past days.

  • w[number]: requests results from the specified number of past weeks.

  • m[number]: requests results from the specified number of past months.

  • y[number]: requests results from the specified number of past years.

exactTerms

string

Identifies a phrase that all documents in the search results must contain.

excludeTerms

string

Identifies a word or phrase that should not appear in any documents in the search results.

fileType

string

Restricts results to files of a specified extension. A list of file types indexable by Google can be found in Search Console Help Center.

filter

string

Controls turning on or off the duplicate content filter.

  • See Automatic Filtering for more information about Google's search results filters. Note that host crowding filtering applies only to multi-site searches.

  • By default, Google applies filtering to all search results to improve the quality of those results.

Acceptable values are:

  • 0: Turns off duplicate content filter.

  • 1: Turns on duplicate content filter.

gl

string

Geolocation of end user.

  • The gl parameter value is a two-letter country code. The gl parameter boosts search results whose country of origin matches the parameter value. See the Country Codes page for a list of valid values.

  • Specifying a gl parameter value should lead to more relevant results. This is particularly true for international customers and, even more specifically, for customers in English- speaking countries other than the United States.

googlehost

string

Deprecated. Use the gl parameter for a similar effect.

The local Google domain (for example, google.com, google.de, or google.fr) to use to perform the search.

highRange

string

Specifies the ending value for a search range.

  • Use lowRange and highRange to append an inclusive search range of lowRange...highRange to the query.
hl

string

Sets the user interface language.

hq

string

Appends the specified query terms to the query, as if they were combined with a logical AND operator.

imgColorType

enum (ImgColorType)

Returns black and white, grayscale, transparent, or color images. Acceptable values are:

  • "color"

  • "gray"

  • "mono": black and white

  • "trans": transparent background

imgDominantColor

enum (ImgDominantColor)

Returns images of a specific dominant color. Acceptable values are:

  • "black"

  • "blue"

  • "brown"

  • "gray"

  • "green"

  • "orange"

  • "pink"

  • "purple"

  • "red"

  • "teal"

  • "white"

  • "yellow"

imgSize

enum (ImgSize)

Returns images of a specified size. Acceptable values are:

  • "huge"

  • "icon"

  • "large"

  • "medium"

  • "small"

  • "xlarge"

  • "xxlarge"

imgType

enum (ImgType)

Returns images of a type. Acceptable values are:

  • "clipart"

  • "face"

  • "lineart"

  • "stock"

  • "photo"

  • "animated"

lowRange

string

Specifies the starting value for a search range. Use lowRange and highRange to append an inclusive search range of lowRange...highRange to the query.

lr

string

Restricts the search to documents written in a particular language (e.g., lr=lang_ja).

Acceptable values are:

  • "lang_ar": Arabic

  • "lang_bg": Bulgarian

  • "lang_ca": Catalan

  • "lang_cs": Czech

  • "lang_da": Danish

  • "lang_de": German

  • "lang_el": Greek

  • "lang_en": English

  • "lang_es": Spanish

  • "lang_et": Estonian

  • "lang_fi": Finnish

  • "lang_fr": French

  • "lang_hr": Croatian

  • "lang_hu": Hungarian

  • "lang_id": Indonesian

  • "lang_is": Icelandic

  • "lang_it": Italian

  • "lang_iw": Hebrew

  • "lang_ja": Japanese

  • "lang_ko": Korean

  • "lang_lt": Lithuanian

  • "lang_lv": Latvian

  • "lang_nl": Dutch

  • "lang_no": Norwegian

  • "lang_pl": Polish

  • "lang_pt": Portuguese

  • "lang_ro": Romanian

  • "lang_ru": Russian

  • "lang_sk": Slovak

  • "lang_sl": Slovenian

  • "lang_sr": Serbian

  • "lang_sv": Swedish

  • "lang_tr": Turkish

  • "lang_zh-CN": Chinese (Simplified)

  • "lang_zh-TW": Chinese (Traditional)

num

integer

Number of search results to return.

  • Valid values are integers between 1 and 10, inclusive.
orTerms

string

Provides additional search terms to check for in a document, where each document in the search results must contain at least one of the additional search terms.

q

string

Query

relatedSite
(deprecated)

string

Deprecated.

rights

string

Filters based on licensing. Supported values include: cc_publicdomain, cc_attribute, cc_sharealike, cc_noncommercial, cc_nonderived and combinations of these. See typical combinations.

safe

enum (Safe)

Search safety level. Acceptable values are:

  • "active": Enables SafeSearch filtering.

  • "off": Disables SafeSearch filtering. (default)

searchType

enum (SearchType)

Specifies the search type: image. If unspecified, results are limited to webpages.

Acceptable values are:

  • "image": custom image search.
siteSearchFilter

enum (SiteSearchFilter)

Controls whether to include or exclude results from the site named in the siteSearch parameter.

Acceptable values are:

  • "e": exclude

  • "i": include

sort

string

The sort expression to apply to the results. The sort parameter specifies that the results be sorted according to the specified expression i.e. sort by date. Example: sort=date.

start

integer (uint32 format)

The index of the first result to return. The default number of results per page is 10, so &start=11 would start at the top of the second page of results. Note: The JSON API will never return more than 100 results, even if more than 100 documents match the query, so setting the sum of start + num to a number greater than 100 will produce an error. Also note that the maximum value for num is 10.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Search.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cse

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.