Introducing the Google APIs Console and our latest API updates
After a busy year of creating, curating, and re-organizing our APIs, we’re
pleased to share that:
- We’re announcing the Google APIs console, a new tool to help you
use our APIs in your applications and on your websites.
- We’re introducing
a new and improved Custom Search API and the new Translate API, which replace the old Web
Search API and the old Translate API respectively, which are being retired along with the old
Local Search API.
- We’ve reorganized and rewritten the documentation for
some of your favorite APIs (read more on the AJAX APIs
Blog).
New Google APIs Console Improves
API Experience
The new
APIs
console helps you manage your API usage across all of your sites and apps. Key
features include:
- Log in with your Google account to see the
API projects you’re working on.
- Create and manage project teams for
projects that are shared with your co-workers or friends.
- Get developer
credentials to track exactly how you are using each API.
- View information
about how your site or app is using the APIs, including which of your pages are making the
most requests.
Initially, the console supports over a half
dozen APIs – that number is expected to grow rapidly over time. Please take a look at the
APIs console and get started
using Google’s new APIs today.
New Custom Search API Delivers
Better Integrated Search Experience
Google Custom Search helps you create a curated
search experience, tailoring a custom search engine precisely to your specifications. This is
the perfect tool for helping your visitors find exactly what they’re looking for on your site,
and is especially useful for businesses that want to create a customized search experience
across their public content without the expense or hassle of developing and hosting their own
search infrastructure.
Today we are enhancing our Custom Search offering with the
introduction of new output formats and a new API. Now, in addition to using the
Custom Search
element or the
XML
API, the new API offers search results using your choice of Atom or JSON syndication
formats. To get started,
click here to log
into the API console and add this API to your project.
Retirement of Older APIs
As part of our ongoing housekeeping of our
first-generation APIs, the legacy Web Search API and the Local Search API are being retired,
to be phased out over the next three years as per our deprecation policies. We’ll also be
tightening up our enforcement of the rate limits for these and the Translate API v1 over the
next few months with an eye toward mitigating unauthorized usage, so we encourage everyone to
migrate to the new APIs as available on the APIs console, or over to the
Custom Search Element, the
Translate Element,
or the
Maps
API GoogleBar as your needs dictate.
Looking
Forward
We’re excited about the opportunities that the new APIs console and this
first batch of APIs built on our new
API
architecture will offer to developers. Even though we’ve been building APIs for
several years now and are quickly approaching
100
tools, products, and APIs for developers, we still feel like we’re just getting
warmed up. We’d love to hear your feedback on the new Google API console and our newest APIs —
please
let us
know what you think.
By Adam Feldman, Adam Winer, David Gibson, and Louis Ryan,
Google Developer Team
