I would like to search a track among my own soundcloud tracks using the search api.
Following the documentation, I should be able to do so by hitting such URL: https://api.soundcloud.com/users/[user_id]/tracks?client_id=[client_id]&q=[query_words], but the results I get are all my tracks and not only the ones matching my query.
Is this the normal behavior or is there another way to filter a user's tracks ?
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I'm using Google Photos API to access albums.
Users can have in an album anything from a single photo to thousands of photos.
Is there a way to get something like an ETag to know if an album has changed since a previous known state?
Currently, the only way I could find is to iterate over all the images, and having to do that in 100 photos each time can take a lot of calls just to find out at the end that nothing has changed.
You want to know whether the album of Google Photos has been changed.
I could understand like above. Unfortunately, in the current stage, there are no metadata like the modified date when the contents in the album were changed. So in my case, I use the following workaround. Please think of this as just one of several workarounds.
Workaround:
If the number of photos in the album is changed, it can be known by the property of mediaItemsCount.
If the cover photo is changed, it can be known by the property of coverPhotoBaseUrl.
If several photos in a album are changed without increasing and decreasing the number of photos, unfortunately, in the current stage, I think that it is required to confirm the creationTime, filename and so on using the method of mediaItems.list.
By confirming from above in order, I can know about the change of the album.
References:
Method: albums.list
Method: albums.get
Method: mediaItems.list
I am building a typical pagination that allows the user to click on a particular page number and view the results (similar to the google search result view). I am using the cloudant search API for this. The cloudant search API provides the limit option but no skip option. How can I skip n number of results if the user is on page 1 and clicks on page 4 ?
I can see that the pagination is implemented using bookmarks. Does it mean that I need to first get the bookmark for page 4 by sending 3 additional requests one after another to the search api ?
There are a couple of different ways of handling this - one is the one you already suggested, which is just to fetch the pages as needed to get the bookmarks. I'm not sure there are many alternatives for search results where we can't pre-calculate the results.
Another alternative, and this depends a bit on the details of what you are trying to do, is to create a view containing the data and use the keys to narrow down the view to the results you need. View outputs support use of limit and skip which would enable you to implement pagination.
There's also a good example of pagination in the docs: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/ddocs/views/pagination.html
We have a website where users put up ads for stuff they want to sell, with parameters such as price, location, title and description. These can then be searched for using sphinx and allowing users to specify min- and maxprice, a location with a searchradius (using google maps) etc. Users can choose to save these searches and get emails when new ads appear that fit their search. Herein lies the problem: We want to perform a reverse search every time an ad is posted. With the price, location, title and description as parameters we want to search through all the saved "searches" and get the ones that would have found the ad. The min- and maxprice should just be performed in a query i suppose, and some Quorom syntax to get all ads with at least 2 or mby just 1 occurance in the title/description. Our problem lies mostly in the geo-search. How do we find all searches where the "search-circles" would include our newly posted location without performing a search for every saved search?
That is the main-question, any comment on our suggested solution to the other problems is also very welcome. Thank you in advance / Jenny
The standard 'geo-search' support on sphinx should work just as well on a Prospective Index, as a normal retrospective search.
Having built a sphinx 'index' of all the saved searches...
And you run a query using the 'ad' as the search query:- rather than the 'filter' using a fixed radius, you just use the radius from the attribute (ie the radius stored on the particular query) - if using the API cant use setFilterRange directly, need to use setSelect, to make a new virtual attribute.
$cl->setSelect("*,IF(#geodist<radius,1,0) as myfilter");
$cl->setFilter('myfilter',array(1));
(and yes, the min/maxprice can just be done with normal filters too - just inverting the logic to that you would use in a retrospective search)
... the complication is in the 'full-text' query, if the saved search is anything more than a single keyword, but you appear to have already figured out that part.
I'm starting to use the Google Custom Search Engine in order to retrieve a temporal use of some selected word in an online newspaper.
I see that for example my result provides a total of 22000 retrieved articles. I tried to retrieve pages after the 100 index but I can't get any result.
I also tried to search directly on the google web page, but I see that after the 10 page I can't go further, so this only show me the first 1000 result at max.
Does it is possible to retrieve every single result or I've to get just only a small portion of that?
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So there's this nifty _trackPageview() api method on a tracker object, but is there a corresponding method that can be used to manually track a search? In other words, _trackPageview() reports to GA that a user hit a page. I want something like _trackSearch("terms") that would report to GA that a user searched for something.
Though not exactly what I was looking for, it seems that one can generate virtual page views to track search results programatically.
Suppose that you've set up a Site Search parameter called "q", so that when a URI is tracked that contains q=these+are+some+terms, GA will mark it as a search hit. One can use the _trackPageview() method to generate virtual search hits like so:
pageTracker._trackPageview('/custom/search?q=These+are+some+terms')
I pass search parameters by GET, so the URL for a search on "TEST" is
http://www.example.com/search?q=TEST
Selecting Content -> Site Search from my analytics account gives me a list of all keywords searched.
To learn more, check the documentation, especially the How do I set up Site Search for my profile? page.