This repo contains the python script for programatic bing image search and saving all the results in a set of JSON files suitable to download
Signup for a free developer account from Bing and get API key from here https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search Bing supports free 5000 calls per month.
from py_bing_search import PyBingImageSearch # pip install py-bing-search
# Signup for a free developer account from Bing and get API key from here https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search
# and use the API key below
ACCOUNT_KEY = 'YOUR_KEY' # Set your own API key
bing = PyBingImageSearch(ACCOUNT_KEY,"men Formal Shirt")
res = bing.search(limit=NUM_RESULTS,format='json')
# res has all the search results in a JSON array. Iterate through the list
Nirmals-MacBook-Pro:bing-image-downloader nirmal$ python bing_image_search.py
Searching for .. men Formal Shirt
Searching for .. hats and caps
Searching for .. women jewellery
Searching for .. mens belt
File saved at bingImages/bing_results.json with 200 number of files
Search results saved at bingImages/bing_results_search_res.json with 200 number of search results
Processed file saved at nodupes_bing_results.json
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sample search result =
{'height': u'1000', 'width': u'1000', 'file_size': u'156225', 'content_type': u'image/jpeg',
'title': u"Bluemint Men's Formal Shirts 2014 (3)", 'search_term': 'men Formal Shirt',
'source_url': u'http://thebestfashionblog.com/mens-fashion/bluemint-mens-formal-shirts-2014',
'id': u'1cadcd14-c858-45e2-af95-60a881cdbb3f',
'media_url': u'http://thebestfashionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Mens-Formal-Shirts-2014-3.jpg'}
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sample converted result for downloading =
[u'http://thebestfashionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Mens-Formal-Shirts-2014-3.jpg',
u'bingImages/men Formal Shirt/Mens-Formal-Shirts-2014-3.jpg']
#####for python 2.7.*
pip install py-bing-search
#####for python 3.*
pip3 install py-bing-search
*Requires the requests library.
Remember to set the API_KEY as your own.
####For Web Results:
from py_bing_search import PyBingWebSearch
search_term = "Python Software Foundation"
bing_web = PyBingWebSearch('Your-Api-Key-Here', search_term, web_only=False) # web_only is optional, but should be true to use your web only quota instead of your all purpose quota
first_fifty_result= bing_web.search(limit=50, format='json') #1-50
second_fifty_result= bing_web.search(limit=50, format='json') #51-100
print (second_fifty_result[0].description)
u'Python Software Foundation Home Page. The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to ...'What you get is a list of WebResult() instances, each comes with the following values:
self.title: title of the result
self.url: the url of the result
self.description: description for the result
self.id: bing id for the page
#Meta info:
self.meta.uri: the search uri for bing
self.meta.type: for the most part WebResult####For Image Results:
from py_bing_search import PyBingImageSearch
bing_image = PyBingImageSearch('Your-Api-Key-Here', "x-box console")
first_fifty_result= bing_image.search(limit=50, format='json') #1-50
second_fifty_result= bing_image.search(limit=50, format='json') #51-100
print (second_fifty_result[0].media_url)What you get is a list of ImageResult() instances, each comes with the following values:
self.id: id of the result
self.title: title of the resulting image
self.media_url: url to the full size image
self.source_url: url of the website that contains the source image
self.width: width of the image
self.height: height of the image
self.file_size: size of the image (in bytes) if available
self.content_type the MIME type of the image if available
self.meta: meta info
#Meta info#:
meta.uri: the search uri for bing
meta.type: for the most part ImageResult####For Video Results:
from py_bing_search import PyBingVideoSearch
bing_video = PyBingVideoSearch('Your-Api-Key-Here', "cats")
first_fifty_result= bing_video.search(limit=50, format='json') #1-50
second_fifty_result= bing_video.search(limit=50, format='json') #51-100
print (second_fifty_result[0].media_url)What you get is a list of VideoResult() instances, each comes with the following values:
self.id: id of the result
self.title: title of the resulting Video
self.media_url: url to the full size Video
self.display_url: url to display on the search result.
self.run_time: run time of the video
self.meta: meta info
#Meta info#:
meta.uri: the search uri for bing
meta.type: for the most part VideoResult####For News Results:
from py_bing_search import PyBingNewsSearch
bing_news = PyBingNewsbSearch('Your-Api-Key-Here', "US Election")
first_fifty_result= bing_news.search(limit=50, format='json') #1-50
second_fifty_result= bing_news.search(limit=50, format='json') #51-100
print (second_fifty_result[0].url)
What you get is a list of NewsResult() instances, each comes with the following values:
self.id: id of the result
self.title: title of the resulting News
self.url: url to the News
self.description: description of the article
self.date: date of the News
self.meta: meta info
#Meta info#:
meta.uri: the search uri for bing
meta.type: for the most part NewsResultYou can also run search_all to keep searching until it fills your required quota. Note that this will make an unpredictable number of api calls (hence drains your credits).
from py_bing_search import PyBingWebSearch
bing_web = PyBingNewsbSearch('Your-Api-Key-Here', "Python Software Foundation")
result_list = bing_web.search_all(limit=130, format='json') #will return result 1 to 130
result_list = bing_web.search_all(limit=130, format='json') #will return result 131 to 260py-bing-search was written by https://github.com/tristantao/py-bing-search