Access Live Google Search Results in Excel (Desktop) via Connect AI

Microsoft Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software application, primarily used for tasks related to data management, analysis, and visualization. When combined with CData Connect AI, you gain immediate access to Google Search results directly within Excel, facilitating data analysis, collaboration, calculations, and more.This article shows how to connect to Google Search in your Connect AI instance and access live Google Search results in Excel spreadsheets.

CData Connect AI provides a pure cloud-to-cloud interface for Google Search, allowing you to easily access live Google Search results in Excel for the web. Simply use the Connect AI Add-In to query live data (or write your own). Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect AI pushes all supported query operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Google Search, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Google Search results.

Configure Google Search Connectivity for Excel

Connectivity to Google Search from Excel is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with Google Search results from Excel, we start by creating and configuring a Google Search connection.

1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
👁 Adding a Connection

2. Select "Google Search" from the Add Connection panel
👁 Selecting a data source

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Google Search.

   To search with a Google custom search engine, you need to set the CustomSearchId and ApiKey connection properties.

   To obtain the CustomSearchId property, sign into Google Custom Search Engine and create a new search engine.

   To obtain the ApiKey property, you must enable the Custom Search API in the Google API Console.

   👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
   
4. Click Save & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Google Search Connection page and update the User-based permissions. 👁 Updating permissions
   

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Google Search results from Excel.

Access Live Google Search Results in Excel

The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect AI from Excel to access live Google Search results.

1. Open Excel, create a new sheet (or open an existing one).
2. Click Insert and click Get Add-ins. (if you have already installed the Add-In, jump to step 4).
3. Search for CData Connect AI Add-In and install the Add-in. 👁 Install the Add-In
   
4. Click Data and open the CData Connect AI Add-In.
5. In the Add-In panel, click Authorize to authenticate with your CData Connect AI instance 👁 Authorizing the Add-In
   
6. In the CData Connect AI panel in Excel, click Import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
   
7. Choose a Connection (e.g. GoogleSearch1), Table (e.g. VideoSearch), and Columns to import 👁 CData Connect AI panel in Excel
   
8. Optionally add Filters, Sorting, and a Limit 👁 Choosing a Connection, Table, and Columns
   
9. Click Execute to import the data 👁 Executing the Query
   

Live Access to Google Search Results from Cloud Applications

Now, you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Google Search results from your Excel workbook. You can add more data to your workbook for calculations, aggregations, collaboration, and more.

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