Access Google Search API from outside GAE

Question

I would like to use The Search API, provided by Google for indexing our data and then search on it. The problem is that our application does not go inside GAE. I find way how to use datastore outside GAE, but cannot find how to use Search API outside GAE. The question is: is it really possible to use it from application outside GAE?

PS: we use java.

Answer 1

Nope, the Search API is not even available in the GAE's flexible environment. From Search:

The Search service is currently unavailable outside of the standard environment. You can host any full-text search database such as ElasticSearch on Google Compute Engine and access it from both the standard and flexible environments.