Bing API Authorization not working

Question

I recently got an email from Microsoft saying that the Bing API was moving to the Windows Azure Marketplace. It seemed that the main difference between the new request was the authentication.

After reading many posts on forums, I found this:

$accountKey = '########';
	$api =  'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Web?$format=json&Query=';
	$context = stream_context_create(array(
		'http' => array(
			'request_fulluri' => true,
			'header'  => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($accountKey . ":" . $accountKey)
		)
	));
	$request = $api.'%27'.$q.'%27';
	$result = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);

However, I still get the error "The authorization type you provided is not supported. Only Basic and OAuth are supported".

Does anyone know how I can fix this. I have also tried cURL and that doesn't work.
Thanks to anyone who can find me a solution.

Answer 1

Hi,

I suggest you refer to another similar topic thread:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/DataMarket/thread/10e766f6-98c7-4a1d-ae3b-1efca05deebc

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Thanks for that link. I looked through it and it only shows the request being done through Javascript/jQuery. At the moment, I'm currently using PHP. Do you know if there's a way of fixing this using PHP and not jQuery?

Answer 3

Try this code:

<?php            
                if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
                {
                    // Replace this value with your account key
                    $accountKey = 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=';
            
                    $ServiceRootURL =  ‘https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/';
                    
                    $WebSearchURL = $ServiceRootURL . 'Image?$format=json&Query=';
                    
                    $context = stream_context_create(array(
                        'http' => array(
                            'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8888',
                            'request_fulluri' => true,
                            'header'  => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($accountKey . ":" . $accountKey)
                        )
                    ));

                    $request = $WebSearchURL . urlencode( '\'' . $_POST["searchText"] . '\'');
                    
                    echo($request);
                    
                    $response = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);
                    
                    $jsonobj = json_decode($response);
                    
                    echo('<ul ID="resultList">');
 
                    foreach($jsonobj->d->results as $value)
                    {                        
                        echo('<li class="resultlistitem"><a href="' . $value->MediaURL . '">');
                        
                        echo('<img src="' . $value->Thumbnail->MediaUrl. '"></li>');
                    }
                    
                    echo("</ul>");
                } 
            ?>

And get more info from this file:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=marketplace%20bing%20api%20with%20php&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fwebmaster%2Fcontent%2Fdevelopers%2FADM_MIGRATION_GUIDE.docx&ei=E2T2T9zaEIS0rAfQvLzUBg&usg=AFQjCNGb51AqhxLDxCqHgUDymDuoNYFzVQ&cad=rja

Hope this helps.

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Answer 4

OK, so I have tried your code. The code I was using before I got from that Migration Guide (the same link you sent me), and it seems that the only difference between my previous code and the code you posted, was the this line 

'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8888'

I now no longer get the same error but get this instead:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Couldn't connect to server in/home/public_html/getResults.php on line 17

Warning: file_get_contents(https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Web?$format=json&$top=8&Query=%27xbox%27&$skip=0) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: operation failed in/home/public_html/getResults.php on line 17