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Creating a Bing News Search App

Creating a Bing News Search App

Learn to build a news search engine using the Azure Bing Search services.

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Introduction

In this lesson, we are going to build our own news search engine using the Azure Bing Search service.

Implementation

We’ll follow the steps mentioned below to build the news search engine:

  • First, we’ll write a Python script to get the news search results for a given search term using the Bing Search REST API calls.

  • Second, we’ll create a nice UI to render the search results which makes the application usable through UI. Like the course, it does not focus on UI development, all the HTML and CSS files are provided in the code block for your reference.

Now let’s implement the application.

A Python script to fetch the news search results

As discussed, we’ll call the Bing Search API to fetch the news search results.

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import requests
search_term = "Microsoft Azure"
headers = {"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": bing_search_key}
params = {
    "q": search_term, 
    "textDecorations": True, 
    "textFormat": "HTML"
    }
response = requests.get(bing_search_endpoint + "v7.0/news/search",
                        headers = headers,
                        params = params
                    )
search_results = response.json()
result = []
for val in search_results["value"]:
    name = val["name"]
    url = val["url"]
    if "image" in val:
        thumbnail_url = val["image"]["thumbnail"]["contentUrl"]
    else:
        thumbnail_url = "https://via.placeholder.com/50"
    description = val["description"]
    result.append({"name": name, "url": url,
                "thumbnail_url": thumbnail_url, "description": description})
for res in result:
    print(res)

Explanation:

  • In line 1, we import the required package.

  • In line 3, we define the term that needs to be searched.

  • In line 5, we define the header data that needs to be sent in the request. We add the ...