Video Search Client API

Overview

The Video Search API lets you search on Bing for video that are relevant to the user's search query, for insights about a video or for videos that are trending based on search requests made by others. This section provides technical details about the query parameters and headers that you use to request videos and the JSON response objects that contain them. For examples that show how to make requests, see [Searching the Web for Videos](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/bing-video-search/search-the-web).

Video 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 3 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

3

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/videos/details" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch("https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/videos/details", {
  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/videos/details",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions