[Javascript] Spell Checker

Scott Reynen scott at randomchaos.com
Mon Aug 13 10:52:24 CDT 2007


On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:25 AM, John Warner wrote:

> Ever notice how if you misspell with Google they ask 'did you mean
> ...' Use Perl to scrape that response off the 'screen' and send  
> back to
> user. On a small traffic site the delays would not be out of hand.  
> BUT this
> will not scale and Google is likely to get unhappy if you are doing  
> this a
> lot (thousand times a day for example). But it is cheap.

Google provides APIs to make screen scraping unnecessary.  See:

http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html#1_3

Peace,
Scott



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