Fremus.co.za » Linq http://www.fremus.co.za/blog Demistifying Life and Web Development Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:56:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Getting search results from Bing REST service and using LINQ to process results http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/2009/10/getting-search-results-from-bing-rest-service-and-using-linq-to-process-results/ http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/2009/10/getting-search-results-from-bing-rest-service-and-using-linq-to-process-results/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:38 +0000 fr3dr1k http://www.fremus.co.za/blog/?p=520 So today I started reading about the Bing API and I got myself an API key and I read through the basic instruction manual, which tells you how to get search results from the web through the Bing REST service. Its pretty straight forward, just get your own key though! But here is some sample code that does the trick and uses Linq to XML to process the results:

            XDocument document = XDocument.Load("http://api.search.live.net/xml.aspx?Appid=&query=sushi&sources=web");
            XElement root = document.Root;
            XNamespace web = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/LiveSearch/2008/04/XML/web";
            var searchItems = document.Descendants(web + "Results").SingleOrDefault();

            IEnumerable testelem = from el in searchItems.Elements()
                                                 select el;
            foreach (XElement myElem in testelem)
            {
                context.Response.Write(myElem.Value + "");
            }

That is very easy!

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