Bing API + PHP
Searching from the Bing API is quick and easy! Today I would like to share with you some of the nuances of developing a web search.
Step 1:
Register and get the API key on the page www.bing.com/developers/appids.aspx
Step 2:
We determine the basic search parameters, namely:
Additional options depend on the type of search source. Read more about this in the documentation.
Step 3:
Form a query string and process the received data. For instance:
The results obtained in this case will be returned by the server in the form of XML containing prefixes in the namespace:
If the search query was successfully completed, the results will be contained in the $ resultsearch-> Web-> Results-> WebResult array, otherwise the error message will be contained in the $ sxe-> Errors-> Error array
What is not in the documentation, but about what It is important to know:
Search Bing API can only search a specific site. For example, to search only on the site habrahabr.ru , the above search query needs to be slightly modified:
I would also like to say that the search does not always correctly process Cyrillic queries. For example, if you include filtering of obscene content in a search query, it turns out that the search engine practically does not filter the content if the request is in Russian:
Conclusion:
Of course, a search in Cyrillic from Bing does not yet allow you to fully enjoy all the chips and goodies described in the documentation. But I would like to say that only practical application will allow you to compare the quality of the morphological search and the speed of indexing the content of the site. Personally, I had to pay attention to Bing, modernizing the search on one of the sites with technical documentation
PS: The simplest example of the Bing API + PHP for searching the site: docs.google.com/View?id=dmwh7bn_10fhhxgtfs
Step 1:
Register and get the API key on the page www.bing.com/developers/appids.aspx
Step 2:
We determine the basic search parameters, namely:
- Search query (URL encoding of a search query in accordance with RFC 1738, in UTF-8 text encoding)
- Source Type (web, images, video, etc ...)
- Number of results per query (maximum 50)
- Offset to the desired position of the search results from the beginning (no more than 1000)
- The format of the data expected from the search server (xml, json, soap)
Additional options depend on the type of search source. Read more about this in the documentation.
Step 3:
Form a query string and process the received data. For instance:
$url = 'http://api.bing.net/xml.aspx?Appid=' .$Appid. '&query=' .rawurlencode(iconv("CP1251", "UTF-8", searchtext)). '&sources=web&web.count=10&web.offset=0&web.filetype=html';
$searchpage = file_get_contents($url);
The results obtained in this case will be returned by the server in the form of XML containing prefixes in the namespace:
$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$resultsearch = $sxe->children('web', TRUE);
If the search query was successfully completed, the results will be contained in the $ resultsearch-> Web-> Results-> WebResult array, otherwise the error message will be contained in the $ sxe-> Errors-> Error array
What is not in the documentation, but about what It is important to know:
Search Bing API can only search a specific site. For example, to search only on the site habrahabr.ru , the above search query needs to be slightly modified:
$url = 'http://api.bing.net/xml.aspx?Appid=' .$Appid. '&query=' .rawurlencode(iconv("CP1251", "UTF-8", searchtext)). '+site:habrahabr.ru&sources=web&web.count=10&web.offset=0&web.filetype=html';
I would also like to say that the search does not always correctly process Cyrillic queries. For example, if you include filtering of obscene content in a search query, it turns out that the search engine practically does not filter the content if the request is in Russian:
$url = 'http://api.bing.net/xml.aspx?Appid='.$Appid.'&query='.rawurlencode(iconv("CP1251","UTF-8",'секс')).'&sources=web&web.count=50&web.offset=0&Adult=Strict';
* This source code was highlighted with Source Code Highlighter.Conclusion:
Of course, a search in Cyrillic from Bing does not yet allow you to fully enjoy all the chips and goodies described in the documentation. But I would like to say that only practical application will allow you to compare the quality of the morphological search and the speed of indexing the content of the site. Personally, I had to pay attention to Bing, modernizing the search on one of the sites with technical documentation
PS: The simplest example of the Bing API + PHP for searching the site: docs.google.com/View?id=dmwh7bn_10fhhxgtfs