A gem to sanely interact with the News portion of the Bing API. Based on the search bing gem.

find the gem on rubygems.org

Installation

gem install newsbing

Configuration

An account key is needed to use the Bing Search API. You can create a new account for the Bing Search API and obtain account key here

Usage

  • this gem relies on the open-uri, net/http, and json gems.

  • Bing News results are limited to 15 results at a time; this gem will use skip and top to get as many results as needed, note that for every 15 results your "top" parameter is, you Asure will "charge" you 1 API call.

Example: Interactive Ruby Shell

require the gem in your shell session

require 'newsbing'

create a new search object, below 10 results are requested, you can retrieve up to 50 at a time

bing_image = Bing.new('your_account_key_goes_here', 10, 'Image')

retrieve the results for a given term

bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin")

or optionally specify an offset for your search, to start retrieving results from the starting point provided

bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin", 25)

parse the results

puts bing_results[0]["Thumbnail"]["MediaUrl"] # puts url of thumbnail

display the total number of rsults

puts bing_results[0]["ImageTotal"]