Total Number of Results Bing Search API

Question

Hi

how to reach number of total results when using Bing Search API

I can reach title, url and descripton but not totals. If I am right, metadata contains the Total results but how to reach it through json object?

MY CODE:

$response = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);
$bing_json = json_decode($response);
echo "<br/> TOTAL";
echo ($bing_json->Total);//????????????
echo "<br/>

Thank  you

Answer 1

I don't know PHP. But to obtain the total results, you have to make a composite query. For exmaple, https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/Search/Composite?Sources=%27web%27&Query=%27Test%27&$format=Json will return the total results of web search on term "Test". Look into the WebTotal field in the result. If you want to obtain other search results, such as image, change the Sources parameter.

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Answer 2

Hi

Thank you for fast reply :)

When I replaced my url with your was working fine.I could see the WebTotal when print_r json object.

However when I try to implement in my code:

$WebSearchURL = $ServiceRootURL.'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/Search/Web?$format=json&Query=%27Test%27&$top=10';

I cannot see the WebTotal anymore or reach it to store in variable for similarity rank.

I am obviously missing something here.

Please could you tell me what is wrong with my request?

Thank you

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Answer 3

As pointed out above, you need a composite query, instead of a web query. So replace Web by Composite in your URL, and add Sources=%27web%27 if you only ant to display web search results.

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