Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

[Kevin LaTona]

Your welcome.


To be honest I am not 100% on the differences between.

I could be off, but I recall urllib2 was a more refined version of urllib.

Yet it seems like urllib works better for me, when I need to do a simple call like this.


-Kevin



On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:50 PM, "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:

> That works beautifully!  Thank you!
> 
> I do have one question, what are urllib and urllib2 then?  I figured that
> urllib2 is a newer version of the previous library (and one that I should
> be using).  Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Kevin LaTona <lists at studiosola.com> wrote:
> 
> I did a quick test with url lib instead of urllib2 and got closer.
> 
> Problem right now is without ID code I can't check any further.
> 
> But it does look promising at this point.
> 
> 
> If all else fails http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#examples
> 
> 
> import urllib
> 
> f = urllib.urlopen('https://user:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA@api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/SearchWeb/Web?Query=%27xbox%20one%27&$top=50&$format=JSON')
> 
> print f.read()
> 
> 
> 
> IOError: ('http error', 401, 'The authorization type you provided is not supported.  Only Basic and OAuth are supported',
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is the format that I've been following:
>> http://gavinmhackeling.com/blog/2012/05/using-the-bing-search-api-in-python/
>> 
>> If I execute the specified query from a browser, the JSON file
>> shows up without a problem.  Now, I'd like to do that programmatically.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> This is my dilemma, I'm trying to get the generated JSON file using the bing api 
>> search.
>> 
>> This is the code that I'm executing from inside the shell:
>> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/460660617
>> 
>> The port doesn't matter to me.  Thoughts?
>> 
>> -- 
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> 
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