search api question

Question

Is it possible to make you app search a website with the search api for example typing something like 'i avatar' in the search widget to search imdb.com for the movie avatar?

Answer 1

For a Google search you can limit the domains to search from by including the site qualifier, for example to search for avatar on imbd.com, issue "avatar site:imdb.com" as the search.

I imagine android is using google as the search engine.

Answer 2

yes, use HttpClient.HttpGet(), like so:

http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/69/

the url would look like this:

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=avatar