def _apicall(self, method, **params):
params['login'] = self.username
params['apiKey'] = self.api_key
params['version'] = '2.0.1'
params['format'] = 'json'
url = BASE_URL + method + '?' + urllib.urlencode(params)
return utils.getjson(url)
def render(self, context):
base_url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news?'
query = self.query.resolve(context)
params = {
'v': '1.0',
'rsz': 'large', # get 8 results
'q': query
}
if hasattr(settings, "GOOGLE_API_KEY"):
params['key'] = settings.GOOGLE_API_KEY
url = base_url + urllib.urlencode(params)
response = utils.getjson(url)
try:
results = response['responseData']['results']
except: # sometimes, weird responses come back that just break
results = ''
if self.var_name:
context[self.var_name] = results
return ''
return results