Puffin

A gem for the Bing Search API 2.0.

find the gem on rubygems.org

Installation

gem install searchbing

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

  • valid search types include: Image, Web, or Video. The first letter must be capitalized

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

Example: Interactive Ruby Shell

require the gem in your shell session

require 'searchbing'

create a new search object, here 10 is the number of results. 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