401 error: Invalid subscription or wrong API endpoint

Question

The search feature on my website just stopped working out of the blue today. This is what I am seeing:

It was working fine yesterday, without issue, but today, I get this message in search results:

What is going on here? We changed nothing in Azure or Bing Custom Search/Hosted UI, so I'm not sure where the disconnect is now. I have tried to troubleshoot by looking for any kind of subscription or search key in our Azure account, but I'm not having much luck. Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi Areno,

I'd recommend checking under Keys and Endpoint to ensure you are utilizing the correct keys.

Also, I'd recommend checking your code against the examples:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/cognitive-services/Bing-Web-Search/quickstarts/python#define-variables

BingWebSearchv7.py

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-REST-api-samples/blob/master/python/Search/BingWebSearchv7.py

(there are also other language samples as well)

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