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

Yves S. Garret yoursurrogategod at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 21:00:13 EDT 2013


Thanks again Kevin.  I'm deviating from the original thread,
but I've got another issue.  When I try to load the json file
and then parse it, this is the error that I get:
http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1329549559


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin LaTona <lists at studiosola.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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:
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> 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 urllib2 is a newer version of the previous library (and one that I should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',
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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