Python Class: Google Image Search Api

gistfile1.py

import urllib2, urllib
import simplejson


opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]

class ImageApi(object):
    uri = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&%s"
    params = { 'q': 'term', 'imgsz': 'medium|large|xlarge', 'start': 0, 'imgtype': 'photo' }

    # result keys
    keys = ['titleNoFormatting', 'originalContextUrl', 'height', 'width', 'unescapedUrl']

    def search(self, query='', params={}):
        queryParams = dict(self.params)
        queryParams.update({'q':query})
        queryParams.update(params)

        queryUri = self.uri % (urllib.urlencode(queryParams), )

        # load api query
        f = opener.open(queryUri)
        res = simplejson.load(f)

        return self.load(res)

    def load(self, response):
        images = []

        for image in response['responseData']['results']:
            # filter keys
            image = {k: v for k, v in image.items() if k in self.keys}
            images.append(image)

        return images

    def download(self, count=0):
        pass


images = ImageApi()
images.search('Barak Obama')