news.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2
import simplejson
#import jdcal

query='Charleston'
#startDate=int(jdcal.gcal2jd(2014,1,1)[0])
#endDate=int(jdcal.gcal2jd(2014,12,31)[0])


# The request also includes the userip parameter which provides the end
# user's IP address. Doing so will help distinguish this legitimate
# server-side traffic from traffic which doesn't come from an end-user.
#url = ('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web'
#       '?v=1.0&q=%s daterange:%d-%d&userip=128.61.52.180'%(query, startDate, endDate))

url = ('https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news'
       '?v=1.0&q=%s&rsz=8&userip=128.61.52.180'%(query))

print url

request = urllib2.Request(
    url, None, {'Referer': 'http://gatech.edu'})
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

# Process the JSON string.
results = simplejson.load(response)

# PRINT COMPLETE RESULTS.
# print results
#print "-"*80

# PROCESS RESULTS
#print results['responseData'].keys()

rows=results['responseData']['results']

## Row Keys: ['publisher', 'GsearchResultClass', 'clusterUrl', 'titleNoFormatting', 'language', 'title', 'url', 'publishedDate', 'unescapedUrl', 'relatedStories', 'content', 'location', 'signedRedirectUrl', 'image']

for row in rows:
  print row['titleNoFormatting']
  print row['publishedDate']
  print row['unescapedUrl']
  print row['content']
  print "-"*80

## More results
print results['responseData']['cursor']