Java library recommendation

[namarino]

Hey guys, I'm working on an application right now for my dad that is meant to help sort his comic book collection. One of its features is a retrieval of the comic book cover art. I did some research and found out that Google used to provide a really easy way to do this (I think it was called Ajax, although I may be mistaken) but it was deprecated some time ago. Basically what I want is to do a Google image search for the title and issue of the comic book and retrieve the first image result. Does anyone know an easy way that I can do this with a java library or something? I'm relatively new to Java as I've only been doing it for about a year and half now. Thanks so much for your help! It is greatly appreciated!

[spenser_l]

Ajax is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, its a web technology used for updating a webpage without having to reload the actual page. So that's probably not what you're looking for.

 

Just a quick search for something similar to what you're looking for led me to this: http://stackoverflow.com/q/7543574/5323947

 

If you do want to use Java and Google's search engine API, here's an example I found: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3727662/5323947

 

Did a bit more reading and it seems that the Google Search API is deprecated in that example. Probably best to look directly at the docs for more up to date examples: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/apis/customsearch/v1