PyBing 0.11

PyBing is a Python wrapper library for the Bing search API. It provides both a thin wrapper around the Bing Search API as well as a more complete object oriented query API. Since Bing provides a very simple JSON API, this wrapper gives you a Pythonic interface to building and executing queries against Bing.

Installing PyBing

To grab the latest version of PyBing from PyPi, use easy_install:

 easy_install pybing

You can also install PyBing by doing a checkout from Google Code and putting the pybing directory somewhere along your PYTHONPATH.

 mkdir /home/jjg/pybing
 export PYTHONPATH=/home/jjg/
 svn checkout http://pybing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /home/jjg/pybing/

Using PyBing's thin API wrapper

>>> from pybing import Bing
>>> bing = Bing('')
>>> response = bing.search_web('python bing')
>>> print response['SearchResponse']['Web']['Total']
1060000
>>> results = response['SearchResponse']['Web']['Results']
>>> print len(results)
10
>>> for result in results[:3]:
... print repr(result['Title'])
...
u'Python Wrapper on Bing API \u2014 The Uswaretech Blog - Django Web ... '
u'PyUnit - the standard unit testing framework for Python'
u'How to transmit arguments from c++ to python '

Using PyBing's Query API Wrapper

All of the various source types aren't built out yet, but the Web Query is working. Here's an example:

>>> from pybing.query import WebQuery
>>> query = WebQuery('', query='python bing')
>>> results = query.execute()
>>> for result in results[:3]:
... print repr(result.title)
...
u'Python Wrapper on Bing API \u2014 The Uswaretech Blog - Django Web ... '
u'PyUnit - the standard unit testing framework for Python'
u'How to transmit arguments from c++ to python '

Getting an AppID

In order to use the Bing API, you'll need a Bing AppID. This is actually really easy to get if you have a Windows Live account (MS Passport, MSN Messenger, Hotmail, etc all work). The page to grab an ID is here http://www.bing.com/developers/createapp.aspx. Just follow the steps and you should have an AppID in no time.


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· Python