nnhiti / google-alert-api

Java Google Alerts API provides you with a lightweight library especially designed to help developers create, delete and update Google alerts within their applications.

google-alert-api v2

A java library allow user get, create, delete, update google alert.

Compiled with java version 1.7

Updated Date:

11/08/2016 (Version 2) - UTC +08:00 - Singapore Time

Issues:

Fixed language issue, the language result is incorrect;

Notes:

Please see the email that your Google Alert using (may be the alert is using uppercase or lowercase) So GAService("[e-mail]", "pass") will different with GAService("[e-mail]", "pass")

Required libraries

No required

Usage

// First of all, we have to login. return true string if login successful else return false

GAService service = new GAService("yourGmail", "yourPassword");
service.doLogin();

-- // Get all alerts.

List lstAlert = service.getAlerts();

-- // Get alert by delivery.

List lstAlert = service.getAlertByDelivery(DeliveryTo.FEED);

-- // Get alert by id.

Alert alert = service.getAlertById(alertId);

-- // Get alert by search query.

List lstAlert = service.getAlertsByQuery("Your Query");

-- // Create alert. return an alert id if created successful else return an error string // Default deliver is email

Alert alert = new Alert();
alert.setHowMany(HowMany.ONLY_THE_BEST_RESULTS);
alert.setHowOften(HowOften.ONCE_A_DAY);
alert.setResultType(ResultType.EVERYTHING);
alert.setSearchQuery("Your Query");
alert.setDeliveryTo(DeliverTo.FEED);
String id = service.createAlert(alert);

-- // Delete an alert.

service.deleteAlert(alertId);

-- // Delete list of alerts.

List lstAlertId = new ArrayList();
lstAlertId.add(alertId);
service.deleteAlert(lstAlertId);

-- // Update alert. return empty string if updated successful else return an error string

AlertBean alert = new AlertBean();
alert.setId(editAlertId);
alert.setHowMany(HowMany.ONLY_THE_BEST_RESULTS);
alert.setHowOften(HowOften.ONCE_A_DAY);
alert.setSearchQuery("your new query");
alert.setDeliverTo(DeliverTo.FEED);
service.updateAlert(alert);

-- Please contact me at [e-mail] if you found any issues.

Happy coding.