Bing search API and Azure

Question

I am trying to programatically perform a search on Microsoft Bing search engine.

Here is my understanding:

• There was a Bing Search API 2.0 , which will

Answer 1

Here is the example of how to call Bing/Azure API using Unirest library.

require_once '/path/to/unirest-php/lib/Unirest.php';

$accountKey = "xxx";
$searchResults = Unirest::get("https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/Composite",
    array(),
    array(
        'Query' => '%27Microsoft%27',
        'Sources' => '%27web%2Bimage%2Bvideo%2Bnews%2Bspell%27',
        '$format' => 'json',
    ), $accountKey, $accountKey
);

// Results are here:
$objectArray = $searchResults->body->d->results;
$rawJson = $searchResults->raw_body;

You can omit Source parameter by defining it in the URL: https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/Webor https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/Image

Note: parameters in request URL are case-sensitive. For Bing they start with a capital letter.