Can i use results get from bing's url search without subscription and API ?

Question

Hi at all,
sorry for my english...
can i use, in my app, results from bing's url search string ?
or i must get a subscription to Bing API ?
Thx

Answer 1

Hi VinxC,
Do you mean you wanna leverage Bing Search URL, e.g.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Microsoft, to get the search results (keywords as Microsoft in this Sample URL) within your app? Essentially, you could make this work via an asynchronous call in your app, for example, via WebClient like this:
WebClient client =
new
WebClient();
string serviceAddress =
"http://www.bing.com/search?q=Microsoft";
client.DownloadStringCompleted += new
DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(Client_DownloadStringCompleted);
Uri token =
new
Uri(serviceAddress);
client.DownloadStringAsync(token);
private
void Client_DownloadStringCompleted(object
sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
string callresult = e.Result;
Then you can parse the result string as you want, here are some samples for how to visualize a HTML string:
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/619974/Parsing-Html-Document-using-csharp
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/57176/Parsing-HTML-Tags-in-C
However, I don’t recommend you to embed the Bing search in your app in this way.
  >>
or i must get a subscription to Bing API ?
As a matter of fact, we could use our Bing search API in a more efficient way, which enables us to embed search results using Json and XML, furthermore, we could have a free offer (5,000Transactions/month) of Bing Search API as well, please refer to
https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search for more information. The quick start and code sample of Bing search API could be found at:
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=9C9479871FBFA822!112&app=Word&authkey=!ANNnJQREB0kDC04.
 Should you have any concern for using Bing Search API in your app, please feel free to let us know.
Best Regards,
Ming Xu
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