I have a mobile app (both iOS and Android) and I need to translate cities name in the language of the user. I can do the translation on mobile device or on my server (running php).
As of now I managed to translate country names, here the java code that translate all possible countries in all possible languages:
import java.util.Locale;
public class ListCountry {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ListCountry obj = new ListCountry();
obj.getListOfCountries();
}
public void getListOfCountries() {
String[] locales = Locale.getISOCountries();
for (String countryCode : locales) {
Locale obj = new Locale("", countryCode);
String[] lingue = Locale.getISOLanguages();
for (String languageCode : lingue) {
System.out.println("Country Code = " + obj.getCountry()
+ ", Country Name = " + obj.getDisplayCountry(new Locale(languageCode)) + ", language = " + (new Locale(languageCode)).getDisplayLanguage());
}
}
}
}
How can I do a similar thing but with city names? I know CLDR and ICU but I really can't figure out how to do it (or if it's even possible). If there is a nice object oriented library out there it'll be better than parsing CLDR XMLs or other source.
I prefer to do it locally (on my server or even on mobile app) instead of calling Google API, example:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=turin&language=ES
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=turin&language=IT
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=turin&language=EN
(question is: I guess google DB of cities name is public, where is it? is it nicely wrapped in some user friendly cross-platform library?)
Thanks for your help
I guess you're looking for a file containing all cities and its translations instead of fetch them once per city?
If so, www.geonames.org has geo-data of different types (countries, adminzones, cities) in multiple languages. Next to their API call you can also download their files directly and parse it by yourself:
At the following URL, you'll find 3 Zip-Files prefixed by "alternativeNames"
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
They contain - hopefully - the necessary data.
Related
Does anyone have an example of making a call to Watson Natural Language Understanding using Java ? The API docs only show Node. However there is a class in the SDK to support it - but no documentation on how to construct the required 'Features' 'AnalyzeOptions' or 'Builder' input.
Here's a snippet that throws a 'Features cannot be Null' - I'm just fumbling in the dark at this point
String response = docConversionService.convertDocumentToHTML(doc).execute();
Builder b = new AnalyzeOptions.Builder();
b.html(response);
AnalyzeOptions ao = b.build();
nlu.analyze(ao);
Until the API reference is published, have you tried looking at the tests on github? See here for NaturalLanguageUnderstandingIT
I've gotten it working with a text string, and looking at the above test, it won't be too much to get it working with a URL or HTML (changing the AnalyzeOptions builder call from text() to html() for example).
Code example:
final NaturalLanguageUnderstanding understanding =
new NaturalLanguageUnderstanding(
NaturalLanguageUnderstanding.VERSION_DATE_2017_02_27);
understanding.setUsernameAndPassword(serviceUsername, servicePassword);
understanding.setEndPoint(url);
understanding.setDefaultHeaders(getDefaultHeaders());
final String testString =
"In remote corners of the world, citizens are demanding respect"
+ " for the dignity of all people no matter their gender, or race, or religion, or disability,"
+ " or sexual orientation, and those who deny others dignity are subject to public reproach."
+ " An explosion of social media has given ordinary people more ways to express themselves,"
+ " and has raised people's expectations for those of us in power. Indeed, our international"
+ " order has been so successful that we take it as a given that great powers no longer"
+ " fight world wars; that the end of the Cold War lifted the shadow of nuclear Armageddon;"
+ " that the battlefields of Europe have been replaced by peaceful union; that China and India"
+ " remain on a path of remarkable growth.";
final ConceptsOptions concepts =
new ConceptsOptions.Builder().limit(5).build();
final Features features =
new Features.Builder().concepts(concepts).build();
final AnalyzeOptions parameters = new AnalyzeOptions.Builder()
.text(testString).features(features).returnAnalyzedText(true).build();
final AnalysisResults results =
understanding.analyze(parameters).execute();
System.out.println(results);
Make sure you populate your NLU service with default headers (setDefaultHeaders()). I pulled these from WatsonServiceTest (I'd post the link but my rep is too low. Just use the FindFile option on WDC github)
final Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
headers.put(HttpHeaders.X_WATSON_LEARNING_OPT_OUT, String.valueOf(true));
headers.put(HttpHeaders.X_WATSON_TEST, String.valueOf(true));
return headers;
I am trying to convert the locale tags (see picture) to display names. For instance, instead of en-us I would like to display English (USA). So far I have managed to get a mixture of display names and language tags as in the picture:
device system languages screen picture
I have tried many thing such as using forLanguageTag, getDisplayLanguage + getDisplayCountry but nothing works.
This is my code snippet:
public void getAvailableLocales() {
systemLanguages = Resources.getSystem().getAssets().getLocales();
Arrays.sort(systemLanguages);
for (int i = 0; i < systemLanguages.length; i++) {
String sL = systemLanguages[i];
Locale loc = new Locale(sL);
String locDisplayResults = loc.getDisplayLanguage();
languagesList.add(new Languages(locDisplayResults));
recyclerAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
}
The idea is to display all languages available on a given device.
Any help would be gratefully received.
Edit: Testing shows that Resources.getSystem().getAssets().getLocales() does indeed give the languages available for each given device. However, getDisplayLanguage only works for two letter tags, and not for two letters-dash-two letters (eg. ar-eg). Any more ideas?
Try
Locale[] availableLocales = Locale.getAvailableLocales();
for(Locale locale : availableLocales){
Log.d("Locale", locale.getDisplayName());
}
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Does anyone know if and how it is possible to search Google programmatically - especially if there is a Java API for it?
Some facts:
Google offers a public search webservice API which returns JSON: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web. Documentation here
Java offers java.net.URL and java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests.
JSON can in Java be converted to a fullworthy Javabean object using an arbitrary Java JSON API. One of the best is Google Gson.
Now do the math:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String google = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=";
String search = "stackoverflow";
String charset = "UTF-8";
URL url = new URL(google + URLEncoder.encode(search, charset));
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), charset);
GoogleResults results = new Gson().fromJson(reader, GoogleResults.class);
// Show title and URL of 1st result.
System.out.println(results.getResponseData().getResults().get(0).getTitle());
System.out.println(results.getResponseData().getResults().get(0).getUrl());
}
With this Javabean class representing the most important JSON data as returned by Google (it actually returns more data, but it's left up to you as an exercise to expand this Javabean code accordingly):
public class GoogleResults {
private ResponseData responseData;
public ResponseData getResponseData() { return responseData; }
public void setResponseData(ResponseData responseData) { this.responseData = responseData; }
public String toString() { return "ResponseData[" + responseData + "]"; }
static class ResponseData {
private List<Result> results;
public List<Result> getResults() { return results; }
public void setResults(List<Result> results) { this.results = results; }
public String toString() { return "Results[" + results + "]"; }
}
static class Result {
private String url;
private String title;
public String getUrl() { return url; }
public String getTitle() { return title; }
public void setUrl(String url) { this.url = url; }
public void setTitle(String title) { this.title = title; }
public String toString() { return "Result[url:" + url +",title:" + title + "]"; }
}
}
###See also:
How to fire and handle HTTP requests using java.net.URLConnection
How to convert JSON to Java
Update since November 2010 (2 months after the above answer), the public search webservice has become deprecated (and the last day on which the service was offered was September 29, 2014). Your best bet is now querying http://www.google.com/search directly along with a honest user agent and then parse the result using a HTML parser. If you omit the user agent, then you get a 403 back. If you're lying in the user agent and simulate a web browser (e.g. Chrome or Firefox), then you get a way much larger HTML response back which is a waste of bandwidth and performance.
Here's a kickoff example using Jsoup as HTML parser:
String google = "http://www.google.com/search?q=";
String search = "stackoverflow";
String charset = "UTF-8";
String userAgent = "ExampleBot 1.0 (+http://example.com/bot)"; // Change this to your company's name and bot homepage!
Elements links = Jsoup.connect(google + URLEncoder.encode(search, charset)).userAgent(userAgent).get().select(".g>.r>a");
for (Element link : links) {
String title = link.text();
String url = link.absUrl("href"); // Google returns URLs in format "http://www.google.com/url?q=<url>&sa=U&ei=<someKey>".
url = URLDecoder.decode(url.substring(url.indexOf('=') + 1, url.indexOf('&')), "UTF-8");
if (!url.startsWith("http")) {
continue; // Ads/news/etc.
}
System.out.println("Title: " + title);
System.out.println("URL: " + url);
}
To search google using API you should use Google Custom Search, scraping web page is not allowed
In java you can use CustomSearch API Client Library for Java
The maven dependency is:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
<artifactId>google-api-services-customsearch</artifactId>
<version>v1-rev57-1.23.0</version>
</dependency>
Example code searching using Google CustomSearch API Client Library
public static void main(String[] args) throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
String searchQuery = "test"; //The query to search
String cx = "002845322276752338984:vxqzfa86nqc"; //Your search engine
//Instance Customsearch
Customsearch cs = new Customsearch.Builder(GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport(), JacksonFactory.getDefaultInstance(), null)
.setApplicationName("MyApplication")
.setGoogleClientRequestInitializer(new CustomsearchRequestInitializer("your api key"))
.build();
//Set search parameter
Customsearch.Cse.List list = cs.cse().list(searchQuery).setCx(cx);
//Execute search
Search result = list.execute();
if (result.getItems()!=null){
for (Result ri : result.getItems()) {
//Get title, link, body etc. from search
System.out.println(ri.getTitle() + ", " + ri.getLink());
}
}
}
As you can see you will need to request an api key and setup an own search engine id, cx.
Note that you can search the whole web by selecting "Search entire web" on basic tab settings during setup of cx, but results will not be exactly the same as a normal browser google search.
Currently (date of answer) you get 100 api calls per day for free, then google like to share your profit.
In the Terms of Service of google we can read:
5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
So I guess the answer is No. More over the SOAP API is no longer available
Google TOS have been relaxed a bit in April 2014. Now it states:
"Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide."
So the passage about "automated means" and scripts is gone now. It evidently still is not the desired (by google) way of accessing their services, but I think it is now formally open to interpretation of what exactly an "interface" is and whether it makes any difference as of how exactly returned HTML is processed (rendered or parsed). Anyhow, I have written a Java convenience library and it is up to you to decide whether to use it or not:
https://github.com/afedulov/google-web-search
Indeed there is an API to search google programmatically. The API is called google custom search. For using this API, you will need an Google Developer API key and a cx key. A simple procedure for accessing google search from java program is explained in my blog.
Now dead, here is the Wayback Machine link.
As an alternative to BalusC answer as it has been deprecated and you have to use proxies, you can use this package. Code sample:
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<>();
parameter.put("q", "Coffee");
parameter.put("location", "Portland");
GoogleSearchResults serp = new GoogleSearchResults(parameter);
JsonObject data = serp.getJson();
JsonArray results = (JsonArray) data.get("organic_results");
JsonObject first_result = results.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println("first coffee: " + first_result.get("title").getAsString());
Library on GitHub
In light of those TOS alterations last year we built an API that gives access to Google's search. It was for our own use only but after some requests we decided to open it up. We're planning to add additional search engines in the future!
Should anyone be looking for an easy way to implement / acquire search results you are free to sign up and give the REST API a try: https://searchapi.io
It returns JSON results and should be easy enough to implement with the detailed docs.
It's a shame that Bing and Yahoo are miles ahead on Google in this regard. Their APIs aren't cheap, but at least available.
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Does anyone know if and how it is possible to search Google programmatically - especially if there is a Java API for it?
Some facts:
Google offers a public search webservice API which returns JSON: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web. Documentation here
Java offers java.net.URL and java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests.
JSON can in Java be converted to a fullworthy Javabean object using an arbitrary Java JSON API. One of the best is Google Gson.
Now do the math:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String google = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=";
String search = "stackoverflow";
String charset = "UTF-8";
URL url = new URL(google + URLEncoder.encode(search, charset));
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), charset);
GoogleResults results = new Gson().fromJson(reader, GoogleResults.class);
// Show title and URL of 1st result.
System.out.println(results.getResponseData().getResults().get(0).getTitle());
System.out.println(results.getResponseData().getResults().get(0).getUrl());
}
With this Javabean class representing the most important JSON data as returned by Google (it actually returns more data, but it's left up to you as an exercise to expand this Javabean code accordingly):
public class GoogleResults {
private ResponseData responseData;
public ResponseData getResponseData() { return responseData; }
public void setResponseData(ResponseData responseData) { this.responseData = responseData; }
public String toString() { return "ResponseData[" + responseData + "]"; }
static class ResponseData {
private List<Result> results;
public List<Result> getResults() { return results; }
public void setResults(List<Result> results) { this.results = results; }
public String toString() { return "Results[" + results + "]"; }
}
static class Result {
private String url;
private String title;
public String getUrl() { return url; }
public String getTitle() { return title; }
public void setUrl(String url) { this.url = url; }
public void setTitle(String title) { this.title = title; }
public String toString() { return "Result[url:" + url +",title:" + title + "]"; }
}
}
###See also:
How to fire and handle HTTP requests using java.net.URLConnection
How to convert JSON to Java
Update since November 2010 (2 months after the above answer), the public search webservice has become deprecated (and the last day on which the service was offered was September 29, 2014). Your best bet is now querying http://www.google.com/search directly along with a honest user agent and then parse the result using a HTML parser. If you omit the user agent, then you get a 403 back. If you're lying in the user agent and simulate a web browser (e.g. Chrome or Firefox), then you get a way much larger HTML response back which is a waste of bandwidth and performance.
Here's a kickoff example using Jsoup as HTML parser:
String google = "http://www.google.com/search?q=";
String search = "stackoverflow";
String charset = "UTF-8";
String userAgent = "ExampleBot 1.0 (+http://example.com/bot)"; // Change this to your company's name and bot homepage!
Elements links = Jsoup.connect(google + URLEncoder.encode(search, charset)).userAgent(userAgent).get().select(".g>.r>a");
for (Element link : links) {
String title = link.text();
String url = link.absUrl("href"); // Google returns URLs in format "http://www.google.com/url?q=<url>&sa=U&ei=<someKey>".
url = URLDecoder.decode(url.substring(url.indexOf('=') + 1, url.indexOf('&')), "UTF-8");
if (!url.startsWith("http")) {
continue; // Ads/news/etc.
}
System.out.println("Title: " + title);
System.out.println("URL: " + url);
}
To search google using API you should use Google Custom Search, scraping web page is not allowed
In java you can use CustomSearch API Client Library for Java
The maven dependency is:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.apis</groupId>
<artifactId>google-api-services-customsearch</artifactId>
<version>v1-rev57-1.23.0</version>
</dependency>
Example code searching using Google CustomSearch API Client Library
public static void main(String[] args) throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
String searchQuery = "test"; //The query to search
String cx = "002845322276752338984:vxqzfa86nqc"; //Your search engine
//Instance Customsearch
Customsearch cs = new Customsearch.Builder(GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport(), JacksonFactory.getDefaultInstance(), null)
.setApplicationName("MyApplication")
.setGoogleClientRequestInitializer(new CustomsearchRequestInitializer("your api key"))
.build();
//Set search parameter
Customsearch.Cse.List list = cs.cse().list(searchQuery).setCx(cx);
//Execute search
Search result = list.execute();
if (result.getItems()!=null){
for (Result ri : result.getItems()) {
//Get title, link, body etc. from search
System.out.println(ri.getTitle() + ", " + ri.getLink());
}
}
}
As you can see you will need to request an api key and setup an own search engine id, cx.
Note that you can search the whole web by selecting "Search entire web" on basic tab settings during setup of cx, but results will not be exactly the same as a normal browser google search.
Currently (date of answer) you get 100 api calls per day for free, then google like to share your profit.
In the Terms of Service of google we can read:
5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
So I guess the answer is No. More over the SOAP API is no longer available
Google TOS have been relaxed a bit in April 2014. Now it states:
"Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide."
So the passage about "automated means" and scripts is gone now. It evidently still is not the desired (by google) way of accessing their services, but I think it is now formally open to interpretation of what exactly an "interface" is and whether it makes any difference as of how exactly returned HTML is processed (rendered or parsed). Anyhow, I have written a Java convenience library and it is up to you to decide whether to use it or not:
https://github.com/afedulov/google-web-search
Indeed there is an API to search google programmatically. The API is called google custom search. For using this API, you will need an Google Developer API key and a cx key. A simple procedure for accessing google search from java program is explained in my blog.
Now dead, here is the Wayback Machine link.
As an alternative to BalusC answer as it has been deprecated and you have to use proxies, you can use this package. Code sample:
Map<String, String> parameter = new HashMap<>();
parameter.put("q", "Coffee");
parameter.put("location", "Portland");
GoogleSearchResults serp = new GoogleSearchResults(parameter);
JsonObject data = serp.getJson();
JsonArray results = (JsonArray) data.get("organic_results");
JsonObject first_result = results.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println("first coffee: " + first_result.get("title").getAsString());
Library on GitHub
In light of those TOS alterations last year we built an API that gives access to Google's search. It was for our own use only but after some requests we decided to open it up. We're planning to add additional search engines in the future!
Should anyone be looking for an easy way to implement / acquire search results you are free to sign up and give the REST API a try: https://searchapi.io
It returns JSON results and should be easy enough to implement with the detailed docs.
It's a shame that Bing and Yahoo are miles ahead on Google in this regard. Their APIs aren't cheap, but at least available.
How can I list all the local users configured on a windows machine (Win2000+) using java.
I would prefer doing this with ought using any java 2 com bridges, or any other third party library if possible.
Preferable some native method to Java.
Using a Java-COM Bridge , like Jacob. You then select an appropriate COM library, e.g. COM API for WMI to list local users, or any other Windows management information.
The Win32_SystemUsers association WMI class relates a computer system and a user account on that system.
The Win32_Account abstract WMI class contains information about user accounts and group accounts known to the computer system running Windows. User or group names recognized by a Windows NT domain are descendants (or members) of this class.
Working Example (jacob 1.17-M2, javaSE-1.6):
import java.util.Enumeration;
import com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent;
import com.jacob.com.ComThread;
import com.jacob.com.EnumVariant;
import com.jacob.com.Variant;
public class ComTst {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ComThread.InitMTA();
try {
ActiveXComponent wmi = new ActiveXComponent("winmgmts:\\\\.");
Variant instances = wmi.invoke("InstancesOf", "Win32_SystemUsers");
Enumeration<Variant> en = new EnumVariant(instances.getDispatch());
while (en.hasMoreElements())
{
ActiveXComponent bb = new ActiveXComponent(en.nextElement().getDispatch());
System.out.println(bb.getPropertyAsString("PartComponent"));
}
} finally {
ComThread.Release();
}
}
}
Using Java COM Object, i.e. Jacob:
public static void EnumerateUsers() {
String query = "SELECT * FROM Win32_UserAccount";
ActiveXComponent axWMI = new ActiveXComponent("winmgmts:\\");
Variant vCollection = axWMI.invoke("ExecQuery", new Variant(query));
EnumVariant enumVariant = new EnumVariant(vCollection.toDispatch());
Dispatch item = null;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while (enumVariant.hasMoreElements()) {
item = enumVariant.nextElement().toDispatch();
sb.append("User: " + Dispatch.call(item, "Name")).toString();
System.out.println(sb);
sb.setLength(0);
}
}
There is a simpler solution for what I needed.
This implementation will use the "net user" command to get the list of all users on a machine. This command has some formatting which in my case I don't care about, I only care if my user is in the list or not. If some one needs the actual user list, he can parse the output format of "net user" to extract the list without the junk headers and footers generated by "net use"
private boolean isUserPresent() {
//Load user list
ProcessBuilder processBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("net","user");
processBuilder.redirectErrorStream(true);
String output = runProcessAndReturnOutput(processBuilder);
//Check if user is in list
//We assume the output to be a list of users with the net user
//Remove long space sequences
output = output.replaceAll("\\s+", " ").toLowerCase();
//Locate user name in resulting list
String[] tokens = output.split(" ");
Arrays.sort(tokens);
if (Arrays.binarySearch(tokens, "SomeUserName".toLowerCase()) >= 0){
//We found the user name
return true;
}
return false;
}
The method runProcessAndReturnOutput runs the process, collects the stdout and stderr of the process and returns it to the caller.
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Netapi32Util;
Netapi32Util.User[] users = Netapi32Util.getUsers();
for(Netapi32Util.User user : users) {
System.out.println(user.name);
}