8 jQuery Plugins That Utilize Google APIs

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Google Image Search

Google Image Search

Google Image Search

jGoogle enables you to do realtime Google Image searches, as well as video, book and patent searches. The demo interface is a little clunky, but it’s nice to see it in action.

Google Feed API

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Google Feed API

This little diddy enables you to convert links to an RSS feed into a nicely laid out set of DIVs displaying the RSS feed content using the Google Feed API.

Google Maps

Google Charts

Google Charts

I reviewed the Google Maps jQuery plugin jgcharts a few weeks back in my Top 6 jQuery Plugins for charts. It’s a great little plugin which supports bar, line, stacked, pie and pie 3D chart types. Whilst not as flexible as the API itself, it’s a great starter for a quick win!

Google Maps

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Google Maps Plugin

Ever needed to implement Google Maps with a one liner? This smart plugin gives you just that power. Just setup an empty DIV in your HTML, and make a simple call:

$("#map").googlemap({addresses: ["New York, NY, USA"]});

Google Gears

gearsjQuery offline is an ambitious project attempting to add offline capabilities to the toolkit of jQuery. Not for the weak-hearted, you need some experience with Gears itself, as well as some pretty decent jQuery knowledge too.

Google Analytics

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This small plugin from Shawn Makinson allows you to implement Google Analytics with great ease into your site and pages The plugin allows for page view and event tracking code to be used, however thats its limitations right now…

Google Spellcheck

Brandon Aarons jquery-spellchecker plugin gives you the ability to add the Google Spell Check API to your arsenal.

Google Translate

Last on the list is the jquery-translate plugin which easily enables you to translate blocks of code with the Google Translate API.

$('body').translate('en')

Tools to help you learn…

Learning jQuery 1.3

Learning jQuery 1.3

Amazon Kindle 2

Amazon Kindle 2

jQuery UI 1.6

jQuery UI 1.6

21 Responses to “8 jQuery Plugins That Utilize Google APIs”

  1. alex says:

    great article. thank

  2. Ayush Saran says:

    Some of these are very cool, thanks!

  3. Erik says:

    Nice collection.. Notice the small mistake, the Google Maps title is also for the Google Chars sample…

    Cheers,

    Erik

  4. noor patel says:

    very very good api’s thank you

  5. Shawn says:

    I would like to suggest this jQuery Google Maps plugin: http://www.mayzes.org/googlemaps.jquery.html, it makes it realy simple to create Google Maps on a page.

  6. Darren says:

    I have been working on a jQuery plugin that might be helpful to others reading this blog.

    It allows you to easily get a map on your site, manage LOTS markers, custom icons, sidebars…. ect….

    http://www.blocsoft.com/bmap/

    Darren

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