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Asked: 2026-06-07T19:45:06+00:00

Microsoft’s own PHP example for new Bing API doesn’t work. I tried in many

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Microsoft’s own PHP example for new Bing API doesn’t work. I tried in many ways, it just shows:

Server Error
401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.
You do not have permission to view this directory or page
using the credentials that you supplied.

Example Coding given in the official documentation is below, it breaks up at 

'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8888',

I am 100% sure my key is correct, and when I just enter it in the browser url it works fine, i.e 

https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/SearchWeb/Web?Query=%27love+message%27

(you need to put the API key as your password and username can be anything)

<html>
    <head>
        <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <title>PHP Bing</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
            Type in a search:

            <input type="text" id="searchText" name="searchText"
                value="<?php
                        if (isset($_POST['searchText']))

                                   {
                            echo($_POST['searchText']);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            echo('sushi');
                        }
                       ?>"
            />

            <input type="submit" value="Search!" name="submit" id="searchButton" />
            <?php
                if (isset($_POST['submit']))
                {
                    // Replace this value with your account key
                    $accountKey = 'BKqC2hIKr8foem2E1qiRvB5ttBQJK8objH8kZE/WJVs=';

                    $ServiceRootURL = 'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/';

                    $WebSearchURL = $ServiceRootURL . 'Image?$format=json&Query=';

                    $context = stream_context_create(array(
                        'http' => array(
                            //'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8888',
                            'request_fulluri' => true,
                            'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($accountKey . ":" . $accountKey)
                        )
                    ));

                    $request = $WebSearchURL . urlencode( '\'' . $_POST["searchText"] . '\'');

                    echo($request);

                    $response = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);

                    print_r($response);

                    $jsonobj = json_decode($response);

                    echo('<ul ID="resultList">');

                    foreach($jsonobj->d->results as $value)
                    {
                        echo('<li class="resultlistitem"><a href="' . $value->MediaURL . '">');

                        echo('<img src="' . $value->Thumbnail->MediaUrl. '"></li>');
                    }

                    echo("</ul>");
                }
            ?>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

I have tried both google API and Yahoo API both, none of those were as difficult as this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    after days of argument with microsoft techinchal support they accpeted that it didnt work

    here is the proper coding which uses CURL do this in the BING API, apply CURL method instead of the file_get_contents which can’t pass the correct authentication information from Linux client to BING service.

    <html>
    <head>
        <title>PHP Bing</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
            Type in a search:

            <input type="text" id="searchText" name="searchText"
                value="<?php
                        if (isset($_POST['searchText']))

                                   {
                            echo($_POST['searchText']);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            echo('sushi');
                        }
                       ?>"
            />

            <input type="submit" value="Search!" name="submit" id="searchButton" />
            <?php


                if (isset($_POST['submit']))
                {

            $credentials = "username:xxx";

                $url= "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/SearchWeb/Web?Query=%27{keyword}%27";        
                $url=str_replace('{keyword}', urlencode($_POST["searchText"]), $url);
                $ch = curl_init();

            $headers = array(
                    "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($credentials)
                );

                $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 
                curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

                $rs = curl_exec($ch);
            echo($rs);
                curl_close($ch);
                return $rs;

        }

            ?>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>
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