Entity Search Client API

Overview

The Entity Search API lets you send a search query to Bing and get back search results that include entities and places. Place results include restaurants, hotel, or other local businesses. For places, the query can specify the name of the local business or it can ask for a list (for example, restaurants near me). Entity results include persons, places, or things. Place in this context is tourist attractions, states, countries, etc.

Entity Search Client is a development API from microsoft.com. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 1 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

API key

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Development

Base URL

https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0

Version

1.0

Endpoints

1

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2020-07-22

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X GET "https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/entities" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/entities", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/entities",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions