You asked, and we listened: Today we are introducing our new API.
Use our results in your application, for free.
We are offering four different functions:
- Web Search,
- News Search,
- Trending News
- Trending Topics
Results are available in three different formats:
- JSON
- XML
- RSS
Try our FREE Web Search API, if your looking for an alternative to
Google Web Search API (depreciated), Yahoo Boss (commercial) or Bing Web Search API (commercial).
Start using it: http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html
You want to use the API in China? We have both Chinese search results and gateway servers located in China. Contact us!
This looks interesting, what about a jsonp format? can’t do to much with json on the client side due to same origin restrictions
Sure, we can add this.
Gr8!
when do you think it will be available ?
Now
We have just implemented CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing http://caniuse.com/cors ) instead of JSONP (which is kind of a hack).
Let me know if this works for you.
CORS seems to be working – gr8!
As far as I know JSONP is much more robust (as it poses no restrictions on IE7 and earlier). To support JSONP you just need to wrap the JSON response that you return today with a callback call, so instead of returning
{.. JSON HERE ..}
you return
callback({..JSON HERE ..})
it allows the request to be served in a tag, which makes it universally available to all known browsers.
anyway, great product …
in my previous comment tag=script tag (script was removed)
are there any limitations for using Faroo’s API & API in China ? how many queries each month for each website/app? can we use Faroo’s API with PHP for JSON parsing mechanism? Great to see free Bing’s alternative, a life savior for developers like us.
are there any limitations for Faroo’s API & API in China ? how many queries each month for each website/app, is it unlimited queries? can we use Faroo’s API with PHP for JSON parsing mechanism? when will you support queries like Google Power User with Query Operators for different filetype queries (i.e .pdf, ppt, doc, xls)?
Great to see free Bing’s alternative, a life savior for developers like us. and sorry for the double posts
There is currently no hard rate limit. 100,000 queries per month should be fine. The API in China supports only Chinese searches (l=zh). No support for advanced query operators in the near future.
Faroo’s JSON API ( http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html#json ) should work just fine with PHP’s json_decode
( http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php )
@Dave: We support JSON-P now:
http://www.faroo.com/hp/api/api.html#crossdomain
Looks good but news search looks too slow as compared to google news.
Both blekko and faroo cant even get close
http://www.faroo.com/#q=gold%20price&s=1&l=en&src=news
http://blekko.com/ws/gold+price+/news+
Search “gold price” on google news, you’ll get recent posts. ie: 2 – 6 hours old not 3 – 10 days old.
Hi all,
I would like to ask you two things:
1) what is the maximum number of results I can get per page
2) Can I get the relevance score of each result?
Thank you in advance.
1. The maximum number of results per page is 100.
2. There is no public relevance score property available. The order of results is a relevance indicator though.
Hi all,
I am really glad that faroo has provided such a useful api for developers.
I am facing an issue, the multiple word search fetches very less result or sometime zero.
DO i have to add any special characters like ‘and’ ‘or’ in between the multiple words for an efficient search.?
Thanks In Advance.