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Google API with Mono on Linux

Monday, 25 April 2005

I was tinkering around and got the Google API to work on Linux with Mono (tried with Fedora Core 3 and Mono 1.0.4, 1.0.6, and 1.1.6). I thought someone else out there might be interested in doing the same.

1 - Grab the Google Search wsdl file.

wget http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl

2 - Use the wsdl utility that is part of mono to generate a C# class that can interact with the Google API web service.

wsdl GoogleSearch.wsdl

This outputs a file GoogleSearchService.cs (here's mine).

3 - Compile the GoogleSearchService.cs class into an assembly.

mcs /target:library GoogleSearchService.cs -r System.Web.Services

The "/target" bit tells the compiler to make a library (dll), not a normal program (exe). The "-r" is a necessary library reference.

The output should be a file GoogleSearchService.dll.

4 - Use it! I just put it in the bin directory of my asp.net application (running XSP and mod_mono).

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