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adds searchType
JoseMCO Oct 14, 2017
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Merge pull request #1 from JoseMCO/JoseMCO-searchType
JoseMCO Oct 14, 2017
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adds books to searchType
JoseMCO Oct 14, 2017
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adds serachType to README
JoseMCO Oct 14, 2017
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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -84,6 +84,21 @@ google('node.js best practices', function (err, res){
```


### Search Within Different Categories

You can also specify the type of the Google search.

```js
var google = require('google')

google.searchType = 'videos'

google('node.js best practices', function (err, res){
…
})
```


### Set Request Options

You can specify the options to be passed to request, see the [request module](https://github.com/request/request) for all available options.
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11 changes: 11 additions & 0 deletions lib/google.js
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Expand Up @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ var igoogle = function (query, start, callback) {
if (google.timeSpan) {
URL = URL.indexOf('tbs=qdr:') >= 0 ? URL.replace(/tbs=qdr:[snhdwmy]\d*/, 'tbs=qdr:' + google.timeSpan) : URL.concat('&tbs=qdr:', google.timeSpan)
}

if (google.searchType=='videos') {
URL+='&tbm=vid'
}
else if (google.searchType=='news'){
URL+='&tbm=nws'
}
else if (google.searchType=='books'){
URL+='&tbm=bks'
}

var newUrl = util.format(URL, google.protocol, google.tld, google.lang, querystring.escape(query), start, google.resultsPerPage)
var requestOptions = {
url: newUrl,
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