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Bing-OpenSearch-0.0.2
/ Bing::OpenSearch

NAME

Bing::OpenSearch - Access the OpenSearch compliant RSS interface of the Bing API version 2.0.

VERSION

Version 0.0.2

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;

use Bing::OpenSearch;

# Query Bing Image search space for 'Greece'
my $response = Bing::OpenSearch->Query( 'Greece', { sourceType => 'Image',
                                                    offset => 0,
                                                    count => 10,
                                                    market => 'en-us'
                                                  }
                                      );

print "Query URL: ", $response->queryURL,"\n";
print "Number of Results: ", $response->totalResults,"\n";

for my $item ($response->results) { # parse results and print data
   print "title: ", $item->title,"\n";
   print "link : ", $item->link,"\n";
   print "guid : ", $item->guid,"\n";
   if ($item->description) {
       print "description: ", $item->description,"\n";
   }
   if ($item->pubDate) {
       print "pubDate: ", $item->pubDate,"\n";
   }

   if ($response->space eq 'Image') { # ONLY for Image search space:
       print "media-content-url     : ", $item->media_content->url,"\n";
       print "media-content-height  : ", $item->media_content->height,"\n";
       print "media-content-width   : ", $item->media_content->width,"\n";
       print "media-content-fileSize: ", $item->media_content->fileSize,"\n";
       print "media-content-type    : ", $item->media_content->type,"\n";
       print "media-thumbnail-url   : ", $item->media_thumbnail->url,"\n";
       print "media-thumbnail-height: ", $item->media_thumbnail->height,"\n";
       print "media-thumbnail-width : ", $item->media_thumbnail->width,"\n";
   }
   print "\n";
}

# save the response feed to an RSS UTF-8 file
$response->save('bing_response.rss');

DESCRIPTION

Bing::OpenSearch facilitates searching Bing through its API Version 2.0 via the OpenSearch compliant RSS interface. The RSS endpoint is anonymous; it doesn't require an AppID.

The following search spaces (sourceTypes) are supported:

  • Web - searches for web content.

  • Image - searches for images on the web.

INTERFACE

Query( $searchTerms [, \%params] )

Searches Bing for the given query ($searchTerms) using the given search parameters and returns a Bing::OpenSearch::Response object.

Valid search parameters include:

  • sourceType - search space, default is Web.

  • offset - startIndex, default is 0. Indicates how far into the result set you are currently processing.

  • count - number of results requested, default is 10. The maximum number of results returned from Bing API version 2.0 is 50. However, if you want more results, you can submit multiple queries and utilize the offset parameter.

  • market - language code such as en-us (English), el-gr (Greek), es-es (Spanish), etc. If provided, attempts to restrict the results to those in the given language.

Note that all of these parameters are optional.

DEPENDENCIES

  • XML::LibXML

  • LWP::UserAgent

  • Scalar::Util

  • Class::Std::Utils

  • Encode

  • version

  • Test::More

  • Test::Exception

Terms of Use

The results returned may not be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner or for any purpose other than rendering Bing results within an RSS aggregator for your personal, non-commercial use. Any other use requires written permission from Microsoft Corporation. By using these results in any manner whatsoever, you agree to be bound by the foregoing restrictions.

BUGS AND SUGGESTIONS

Any feedback is very welcome. Please contact me for any bugs, comments or suggestions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to Petr Pajas, Damian Conway, Gisle Aas, Andy Lester, Jeffrey Friedl, Michael G Schwern, Dan Kogai, Adrian Howard, John Peacock, David A P Mitchell and Graham Barr for their great modules and their huge contribution to the Perl community. And most of all to Larry Wall, the man who started it all.

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010, Kostas Ntonas, <kntonas at gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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