bingapi 0.02

bingapi is a very thin Python wrapper over the Bing API. Bing provides a very simple Restful interface to their search engine and provides results in JSON and XML interface.<br /><br />With bingapi.py, we query the rest urls to get the JSON response, which is parsed with simplejson.py. bingapi.py just adds simple niceties like logging and error handling.<br /><br />Installing:<br /><br />easy_install bingapi<br /><br />or Svn it from https://svn.uswaretech.com/bingapi/<br /><br />Using:<br /><br />To use this library, you need to have an Appid from Bing. You can get it from<br />http://www.bing.com/developers/createapp.aspx<br /><br />The meat of bingapi.py is `talk_to_bing` function. It takes a query(eg. salsa)<br />and a sources(eg. web) and other optional parameters in extra_args<br />(eg. {'web.offset': 40}) and returns the dictionary of Bing's response.<br /><br />eg<br /><br />In [2]: from bingapi import bingapi<br /><br />In [3]: bing = bingapi.Bing('')<br /><br />In [4]: bing.talk_to_bing('salsa', sources='web')<br />Out[4]:<br />..........<br /><br />In [5]: bing.talk_to_bing('salsa', sources='web', extra_args={'web.offset':40})<br />Out[5]:<br />..........<br /><br />Class `Bing` also provides utility functions to do the various types of seraches<br />so you dont have to remember the source type.<br /><br />The various functions available are,<br /><br />do_web_search<br />do_image_search<br />do_news_search<br />do_spell_search<br />do_related_search<br />do_phonebook_search<br />do_answers_search<br /><br />All of them are used similarly.<br /><br />In [6]: bing.do_web_search('salsa')<br />Out[6]:<br />..........<br /><br />In [7]: bing.do_image_search('salsa')<br />Out[7]:<br />..............<br /><br />In [8]: bing.do_answers_search('what is salsa')<br />Out[8]:<br />...............<br /><br />If you want to use multiple sources in one call you can use `talk_to_bing`<br />directly as<br /><br />In [10]: bing.talk_to_bing(query='salsa', sources='web news')<br />Out[10]:<br />............

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