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Re: Google Trends Data and Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg103897] Re: Google Trends Data and Mathematica
• From: jroge <jroge at mac.com>
• Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
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On Oct 10, 4:10 am, telefunkenvf14 <rgo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 7, 6:08 am, jroge <jr... at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for some advice for directly importing data from Google
> > Trends? I am able to download the CSV files from Google and then load
> > into Mathematica easily enough, but I would rather skip the
> > intermediate steps and directly pull the data from Google into my
> > Mathematica notebook. I think where I am getting stuck is that Google
> > requires authentication and programming that into Mathematica is a bit
> > beyond my skill sets. Any thoughts?
>
> > Jon
>
> I was trying to do something similar just the other day... However,
> the examples in Mathematica's documentation, concerning using web
> services to access Google, are broken. I believe Chris Osborn's
> suggestion of using Import[] should work.
>
> I'll play around this weekend trying to write some functions
> corresponding to the google search url options (more info here:http://www=
.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/30/google-search-urls-revea...).
> Maybe then we/you can help adapt the code for the Trends searches.
>
> I generally find that getting data into Mathematica can be a bit
> cumbersome--probably because I've been spoiled/ruined by pointy-clicky
> my whole life. Also, if you have Excel 2007 you should be able to do
> the same type of thing. (Querying and automatically having Excel pull
> the data. Actually read something about customizing Google queries for
> Excel the other day. Bookmarked it somewhere...)

Import is certainly the right function, it is actually the one I was
using. The roadblock I am running into the user authentication. Google
requires you to first log-in to you account . Where I am getting stuck
is the proper way to represent the user credentials when I run Import.
The Wolfram Blog post on tweeting from mathematica is the closest
documentation I can find, but that is an apples to oranges scenario.