Bing search API AppId not working?

Question

I've found a number of other people out there that have this issue but no real solution.

I am trying to hit the web service below but every time it throws the error:

> "Code":1002,"Message":"Parameter has invalid
> value.","Parameter":"SearchRequest.AppId

I read somewhere that you need to put single quotes around the appid which i did:

http://api.bing.net/json.aspx?&Appid=%27Ii80VAjSf0Wa5PMgsh31M%2B11111111df2nijXk%2BjmyM%3D%27&query=abe&sources=web+image


But it throws the same error as the standard method:

http://api.bing.net/json.aspx?&Appid=Ii80VAjSf0Wa5PMgsh31M%2B11111111df2nijXk%2BjmyM%3D&query=abe&sources=web+image

Has anyone else run into this?  Recommendations on how to get around it?

I got my "App ID" from the "Account Keys" section here: https://datamarket.azure.com/account/keys.  Is that the correct spot?

Answer 1

Hi, have you signed up for Bing Search API on Azure marketplace?

You can test this on this page https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/explore/5ba839f1-12ce-4cce-bf57-a49d98d29a44

By the way, since Bing Search API is moved to Azure Marketplace now, we always use https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/Search/v1/Composite?$top=50&$format=Atom instead of http://api.bing.net/json.aspx.

Best Regards

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Answer 2

With the basic authentication for the new api, I believe using your account key as the password, and setting the username to an empty string should do the trick.