searchbing

searchbing

A gem for the Bing Search API 2.0.

find the gem on rubygems.org

Installation

gem install searchbing

Configuration

A subscription and account key are needed to use the Bing Search API. You can create a new account for the Bing Search API and obtain account key here The WebOnly search requires a separate subscription found here

Usage

• valid search types include: Image, Web, WebOnly, News or Video. The first letter must be capitalized

• this gem relies on the open-uri, net/http, and json gems.

Example: Interactive Ruby Shell

require the gem in your shell session

require 'searchbing'

create a new search object, below 10 results are requested, you can retrieve up to 50 at a time

bing_image = Bing.new('your_account_key_goes_here', 10, 'Image')

retrieve the results for a given term

bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin")

or optionally specify an offset for your search, to start retrieving results from the starting point provided

bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin", 25)

parse the results(recent changes require parsing with symbols, also please note the data structure of the response coming from bing has also changed)

puts bing_results[0][:Image][0][:MediaUrl]

display the total number of results

puts bing_results[0][:ImageTotal]