CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bing-api
user17022777
user17022777

Reputation:

Microsoft Bing v7 search parameters not functioning

I am trying out MS Bing v7 API.

If I enter a curl request:

curl -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key:<MYKEY>" https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search?q=vintage+cars&count=25&responseFilter=webpages,news,-images,-videos

I do not get 25 results, only #WebPages.0 to #WebPages.9 are returned. If, as seems to be suggested, I should use the offset parameter (eg: &offset=0) in the above curl request, then (JSON) references to images and videos are returned (despite the -images,-videos) along with a web page count again of only 10. The same happens in Java code.

I realise the MS documentation is not up to date. There are, for example, references to WebPage (and other entities) with fields missing in the documentation (eg: richFacts in WebPage).

So have the count/offset/responseFilter parameters been changed or been updated or am I just using them wrong somehow?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 199

Answers (1)

user17022777
user17022777

Reputation:

The answer is two things:

  1. Despite the documentation stating -videos,-images etc. is valid, they are not. Just use Webpages,News.
  2. The https://... string (in cURL) needs to be embedded in quotes.

Upvotes: 0

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