How to query an advanced search with google customsearch API?

Question

How can I programmatically using the Google Python client library do an advanced search with Google custom search API search engine in order to return a list of first n

Answer 1

An alternative using the python requests library if you do not want to use the google discovery api:

import requests, pprint
q='italy'
api_key='AIzaSyCs.....................'

q = requests.get('https://content.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1', 
    params={ 'cx': '013027958806940070381:dazyknr8pvm', 'q': q, 'key': api_key} )
pprint.pprint(q.json())