Returns metadata about the search performed, metadata about the engine used for the search, and the search results. Uses a small set of url patterns.
HTTP request
GET https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1/siterestrict
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Query 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. Thegl
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
andhighRange
to append an inclusive search range oflowRange...highRange
to the query.
hl
string
Sets the user interface language.
-
Explicitly setting this parameter improves the performance and the quality of your search results.
-
See the Interface Languages section of Internationalizing Queries and Results Presentation for more information, and Supported Interface Languages for a list of supported languages.
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"
linkSite
string
Specifies that all search results should contain a link to a particular URL.
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
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.
siteSearch
string
Specifies a given site which should always be included or excluded from results (see siteSearchFilter
parameter, below).
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 .