Google custom search sort date range criteria not working

Question

In Google Custom search we pass date range criteria in sort parameter

http://www.example.com/search?cx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:yyyyyy_yyyyy&q=google&sort=date:r:20160304:20160505.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_search#restrict_to_range

But we are not getting expected result as per the date range criteria. After debugging the code the sort parameter is not getting passed to custom search URL even when we are passing it on to our search page url.

Google Custom search URL:

https://cse.google.com/cse?q=google&r=m&cx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:yyyyyy_yyyyy&fexp=20606&client=google-coop&hl=en&type=0&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&format=p4&ad=p4&nocache=1081472127237880&num=0&output=uds_ads_only&source=gcsc&v=3&allwcallad=1&adext=as1%2Csr1%2Cctc1&bsl=10&u_his=50&u_tz=330&dt=1472127237882&u_w=1366&u_h=768&biw=1349&bih=233&psw=1349&psh=233&frm=0&uio=uv3st16sd13sv13lhsl1sr1cc1-&jsv=14100&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fsearch%3Fcx%xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_yyyyy%26q%3Dgoogle%26sort%3Ddate%253Ar%253A20160304%253A20160505

But when we try to access the direct API with sort date range parameter we are getting expected results.

https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?q=google&cx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:yyyyyy_yyyyy&sort=date%3Ar%3A20160701%3A20160724&key=<APIKEY>

We are using Google custom search V2 implementation.

Thanks, Anup

It will be helpful to share your *JavaScript codes (for the generation of the Google Custom search URL)* so the community could look closely for a possible fix. — nyedidikeke, Sep 14 '16 at 00:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '16 at 13:50

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Try to escape all special characters which are passed as query parameters. For example

>  - &lt;
<  - &gt;
&  - &amp;
'  - &#039;
'' - &#034;

These are encoded like this. You can escape it in two ways

explicitly specifying escapeXml = "**false**" as the default value will be true.
Add the url in JSP if you are using <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn" %> and then escape by calling ${fn:escapeXml(myString)}.

answered Sep 29 '16 at 13:50

@Anup you can try this option too – Bhaskara Arani Sep 29 '16 at 13:51
@Anirudh - JFYI I have used JS implementation of GCE. – Anup Khandelwal Oct 03 '16 at 07:22
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@AnupKhandelwal - I understand that you ahve used `` its a normal search tag within namespace `gcse` . These are basically javascript namespaces. I do think you can use escapeXml with the tag you want to escape special character. – Oct 06 '16 at 12:29

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 08 '16 at 20:32

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It seems like an issue with your url parameters encoding. It might be double encoded.

answered Sep 08 '16 at 20:32

JorgeObregon

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 09 '16 at 11:43

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I think in code ur doing any escape characters for the query params try to remove that check

answered Sep 09 '16 at 11:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 10 '16 at 07:22

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Make sure you're using correct format.

https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?key=INSERT_YOUR_API_KEY&cx=017576662512468239146:omuauf_lfve&q=searchterm&sort=document-weight

Thanks!

answered Oct 10 '16 at 07:22

Meghshyam Sonar

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Google custom search sort date range criteria not working

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