2023 Bing API - Working Example

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I had an issue with the changes that have come in since this video was made, especially the Bing API, thankfully after a bit of searching and re-watching the videos I've a solution that works. Helpful resources for me were:

From the API I was able to see what the json response would have in it so I could pick what I wanted to deserialize and it simply looks like this:

public class NewsSearch
    {
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "value")]
        public List<NewsResult> NewsResults { get; set; }
    }

    public class NewsResult
    {
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "name")]
        public string Headline { get; set; }
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "description")]
        public string Summary { get; set; }
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "category")]
        public string Category { get; set; }
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "datePublished")]
        public DateTime DatePublished { get; set; }
    }

You can add more properties but I only wanted these ones.

Then I used the SDK example to help with getting the web result, feeding it into the StreamReader and JsonTextReader to deserialize it into the NewsResult list.

public static List<NewsResult> GetNewsForPlayer(string playerName)
        {
            string subscriptionKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";
            string endpoint = "https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search";
            var results = new List<NewsResult>();

            Console.WriteLine("Searching the Web for: " + playerName);

            // Construct the URI of the search request
            var uriQuery = endpoint + "?q=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(playerName);

            // Perform the Web request and get the response
            WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(uriQuery);
            request.Headers["Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"] = subscriptionKey;
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponseAsync().Result;            
            var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            using (var jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(reader))
            {
                results = serializer.Deserialize<NewsSearch>(jsonReader).NewsResults;
            }
                return results;
        }

The rest of it can then follow on with the tutorial to loop through your players and output the results

     var topTenPLayers = GetTopTenPlayers(players);
            foreach (var player in topTenPLayers)
            {
                List<NewsResult> newsResults = GetNewsForPlayer(string.Format("{0} {1}", player.FirstName, player.SecondName));
                foreach(var result in newsResults)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Date: {0:f}\r\nHeadline: {1}\r\nSummary: {2}\r\n", result.DatePublished, result.Headline, result.Summary));
                    Console.ReadKey();
                }
            }

Hope this helps, as a fellow student I would also appreciate if someone notices I have done anything which is bad practice or any improvements that can be made to the code.

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2023 Bing API - Working Example