Endpoints for the Bing Image Search API

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Warning

On October 30, 2020, the Bing Search APIs moved from Azure AI services to Bing Search Services. This documentation is provided for reference only. For updated documentation, see the Bing search API documentation. For instructions on creating new Azure resources for Bing search, see Create a Bing Search resource through the Azure Marketplace.

The Image Search API includes three endpoints. Endpoint 1 returns images from the Web based on a query. Endpoint 2 returns ImageInsights. Endpoint 3 returns trending images.

Endpoints

To get image results using the Bing API, send a request to one of the following endpoints. Use the headers and URL parameters to define further specifications.

Endpoint 1: Returns images that are relevant to the user's search query defined by ?q="".

GET https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/search

Endpoint 2: Returns insights about an image, using either GET or POST.

 GET or POST https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/details

A GET request returns insights about an image, such as Web pages that include the image. Include the insightsToken parameter with a GET request.

Or, you can include a binary image in the body of a POST request and set the modules parameter to RecognizedEntities. This will return an insightsToken to use as a parameter in a subsequent GET request, which returns information about people in the image. Set modules to All to get all insights, except RecognizedEntities in the results of the POST without making another call using the insightsToken.

Endpoint 3: Returns images that are trending based on search requests made by others. The images are separated into different categories, for example, based on noteworthy people or events.

GET https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/trending

For a list of markets that support trending images, see Trending Images.

For details about headers, parameters, market codes, response objects, errors, etc., see the Bing Image Search API v7 reference.

Response JSON

The response to an image search request includes results as JSON objects. For examples of parsing the results see the tutorial and source code.

Next steps

The Bing APIs support search actions that return results according to their type. All search endpoints return results as JSON response objects.  All endpoints support queries that return a specific language and/or location by longitude, latitude, and search radius.

For complete information about the parameters supported by each endpoint, see the reference pages for each type. For examples of basic requests using the Image search API, see Image Search Quick-starts.