Google-api-nodejs-client: Search API

[raphaelarias]

Nodejs is now fully supported by AppEngine, but the Search API is not available.

Any possibility to use the Search API with Nodejs?
There is one very old issue already closed about the subject https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client/issues/668

[dimitar-mihov]

I also want to know.

[bcoe]

thanks for the feature request, I'll make an effort to dig into this for you.

[JustinBeckwith]

Greetings folks! Sadly, the Search API is very specific to App Engine Standard. I don't believe you can access that API from the newer App Engine runtimes, but @steren would know that for sure :)

Even if the API was accessible - any client written for it would have to be hand written. All of the APIs in this project are auto-generated based on our discovery index, here:
https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/

While we'd love to hit every API, this is just something we're not likely to take on.

[raphaelarias]

Hi @JustinBeckwith

Thanks for the reply. I guess this type of API is not available in REST format, right?

If it's available in a REST format or somehow I can discover how to use it in an undocumented form, I don't mind creating an open source community run wrapper for it.

[raphaelarias]

Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7FyU9wW8Y#t=2088

Or like this. :)

https://github.com/tomwalder/php-appengine-search

Apparently based on the one above it's possible, right?

[JustinBeckwith]

You should absolutely try if it's possible!