problem using a Bing Web Search Python client library

Question

I was trying to use a Bing Web Search Python client library following the instructions on this page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/quickstarts/sdk/web-search-client-library-python.

client = WebSearchClient(endpoint="YOUR_ENDPOINT", credentials=CognitiveServicesCredentials(subscription_key))

web_data = client.web.search(query="Yosemite")

Using either "https://api.bing.microsoft.com" or "https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search" as endpoint, I got into this error - ErrorResponseException: Operation returned an invalid status code 'Resource Not Found'.

Does anyone have any suggestion to resolve this error? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

@Crystal Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

I was able to use the below sample code and that worked fine. Please update the subscription_key and the query in the below code and run the sample:

import json
import os
from pprint import pprint
import requests

'''
This sample makes a call to the Bing Web Search API with a query and returns relevant web search.
'''

# Add your Bing Search V7 subscription key and endpoint to your environment variables.
subscription_key = "aae3eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXffe1c31"
endpoint = "https://api.bing.microsoft.com" + "/v7.0/search"

# Query term(s) to search for.
query = "Microsoft Azure Open AI Service"

# Construct a request
mkt = 'en-US'
params = { 'q': query, 'mkt': mkt }
headers = { 'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': subscription_key }

# Call the API
try:
    response = requests.get(endpoint, headers=headers, params=params)
    response.raise_for_status()

    print("\nHeaders:\n")
    print(response.headers)

    print("\nJSON Response:\n")
    pprint(response.json())
except Exception as ex:
    raise ex

Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.