Ok so im putting together a tool with the google API. But it seems very flakey (the api). Using the regular search api. The tools here that use the API seem to be the most stable I've found, any secrets on making them work? If I've heard right you've built your own SOAP client? Any reasons why? Also although yours seem very stable they're not without bugs. I have lots of sites in the co-op that seem to validate as 0 for no reason. This isn't just one site, it's completely at random, I beleive it's a bug... The tool im creating is fine, and works. Then at random times it fails to get results from google... So the point to this post is.....anyone got any tips for building a stable tool using the api?
I think google api servers are sometimes br0ke. Some days I get perfect results and some days it don't even shows the result for a site command. The point is you are not alone, it is googles own problem and lets hope they will resolve them soon.
Ditto that the problem is often on Google's side ... they really should spend a bit of time and productionalize their API ...
Agreed, I think i've found a way to bodge the code into making it more stable... You can see the results of my efforts in the script at www.SERPalert.com if you're interested.
Actually, I haven't changed anything on my own code that uses the Google API ... and I doubt Shawn has tweeked anything on his keyword tracker ... but both are show more consistant results or me - i.e. this is all on Google's end.
Oh sure, but i've altered it so if if the api pull fails the first time it tries again. Now I just need google to be crap again so i can test it