Creating your Google Programmable Search Engine

Assuming you already have or are willing to go ahead and create an account with Google (which I assume is a necessary component to creating the programmable search engine), follow these steps to configure yourself a search engine.

1. Navigate to the landing page and click the Get Started button.

2. Click the Add button to create a new instance.

3. Enter your site address (I believe I went with *.moondeer.blog/*) and click CREATE.

4. Click on Control Panel to get to the configuration.

5. Here’s the first value we need, the Search engine ID, this is the value referred to every else as cx.

6. Now, scroll down a bit and find the Programmatic Access section. Click the Get Started button to the right of Custom JSON Search API.

7. Find and click the Get a Key button.

8. Select the + Create a new project option.

9. Pick a project name and click NEXT.

10. And here’s value number two, the API key.