Google auto complete on search bar?

Question

I have found many different ways to add auto complete to text inputs.

Such as: http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/

What I want is a way to not have to type all the possibilities that someone might type and instead just use Google's Autocomplete options. Like when you type in "dog", I get "dog breeds" "dogpile" and "dog the bounty hunter". I want the same thing to appear when I type in a text input. These tools that I have found require you to add in the options that the person could click.

Please let me know if you need anything explained further.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It's easily doable. Google provides an api for that:

http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=dog

The client parameter is required.

Result:

["dog",["dog breeds","dogpile","dog the bounty hunter"],["","",""],[],{"google:suggesttype":["QUERY","QUERY","QUERY"]}]

Then it's your job to parse that and provide the info to your autocomplete plugin.

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edit: I also found this way to access the api: http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=microsoft from https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-ajax-search-api/UXTiCJMvKLo

And it seems like you can't use it for your site, at least according to this guy.