Bing Search API Jupyter Notebooks

Prerequisites

• Python 3 (Written using python3.7)
  • w/ the jupyter-notebook, & requests packages installed
• A Bing Search API V7 Trial Tier.
  • For Web, News, Image, Video, or Entity search, you will need a free-tier (F0) "Bing Search v7" subscription.
  • For Spellcheck, Autocorrect, or Custom Search, you will need free-tier (F0) "Bing Spell Check v7," "Bing Autosuggest v7," & "Bing Custom Search" subscriptions respectively.

Setup:

On Windows:

> git clone https://github.com/rtruxal/bing-api-guide.git
> cd bing-api-guide
> set BING_KEY=1234567890deadbeef0987654321
> jupyter notebook

On Linux/Mac

$ git clone https://github.com/rtruxal/bing-api-guide.git
$ cd bing-api-guide
$ export BING_KEY=1234567890deadbeef0987654321
$ jupyter notebook

Other/Misc

Are You Using the Right Endpoint?

The following two URLs both work, but have very different behavior. In both, I'm searching the internet for kitten pictures.

A) https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/search?q=kittens&responseFilter=Images

B) https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/search?q=kittens

Note the .../images/... in B).

In A), I'm searching for images via the web endpoint.
In B), I'm searching (without a type filter) via the dedicated image endpoint.

The web endpoint is more versitile, but the image endpoint will provide richer information about images.