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Any API for google cache search?

I am trying to search Google Cache, so I need to run this query:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:news.ycombinator.com/news+hacker+news

And get some content, like a timestamp from a page. But when I do this with curl (ruby), it gives a rejected resolved error, i.e. The scraper is blocked and this was expected.

So, is there a way to search google cache (or API or some kind of workaround copy) and extract some information like timestamp?

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I did not have an API, but I can clear it using hpricot or nokogiri in rails (curl in Rails permits denial of permission). I will put the code as soon as I figure out how to extract the timestamp from the above URL using these gems.

Anyone have a better solution?

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It looks like he can do it: http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html#1_2

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