Quickstart: Call your Bing Custom Search endpoint using Node.js

Use this quickstart to learn how to request search results from your Bing Custom Search instance. Although this application is written in JavaScript, the Bing Custom Search API is a RESTful web service compatible with most programming languages. The source code for this sample is available on GitHub.

Prerequisites

• A Bing Custom Search instance. For more information, see Quickstart: Create your first Bing Custom Search instance.

• The Node.js JavaScript runtime.

• The JavaScript request library.

Create and initialize the application

• Create a new JavaScript file in your favorite IDE or editor, and add a require() statement for the requests library. Create variables for your subscription key, custom configuration ID, and search term.

  var request = require("request");
  
  var subscriptionKey = 'YOUR-SUBSCRIPTION-KEY';
  var customConfigId = 'YOUR-CUSTOM-CONFIG-ID';
  var searchTerm = 'microsoft';
  

Send and receive a search request

1. Create a variable to store the information being sent in your request. Construct the request URL by appending your search term to the q= query parameter, and your search instance's custom configuration ID to the customconfig= parameter. Separate the parameters with an ampersand (&).

   var info = {
       url: 'https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/custom/search?' + 
           'q=' + searchTerm + "&" +
           'customconfig=' + customConfigId,
       headers: {
           'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' : subscriptionKey
       }
   }
   

2. Use the JavaScript request library to send a search request to your Bing Custom Search instance and print information about the results, including its name, url, and the date the webpage was last crawled.

   request(info, function(error, response, body){
           var searchResponse = JSON.parse(body);
           for(var i = 0; i < searchResponse.webPages.value.length; ++i){
               var webPage = searchResponse.webPages.value[i];
               console.log('name: ' + webPage.name);
               console.log('url: ' + webPage.url);
               console.log('displayUrl: ' + webPage.displayUrl);
               console.log('snippet: ' + webPage.snippet);
               console.log('dateLastCrawled: ' + webPage.dateLastCrawled);
               console.log();
           }
   

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