class Newssearch

Before proceeding you will need an account key, which can be obtained by registering an accout at windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/sign-in-what-is-microsoft-account

Attributes

account_key[RW]

num_results[RW]

Public Class Methods

new(account_key, num_results) click to toggle source

Create a new object of the bing class

>> bing = Bing.new('your_account_key_goes_here', 10) 
=> #<Bing:0x9d9b9f4 @account_key="your_account_key", @num_results=10>

Arguments:

account_key: (String)
num_results: (Integer)

# File lib/newsbing.rb, line 13
def initialize(account_key, num_results)
        @account_key = account_key
        @num_results = num_results
end

Public Instance Methods

hit_api(search_term, skip, top) click to toggle source

# File lib/newsbing.rb, line 39
def hit_api(search_term, skip, top)
          user = ''
          result_set = []
          web_search_url = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/News?"
          query_string = '$format=json&Query='
          query_portion = URI.encode_www_form_component('\'' + search_term + '\'')
          params = "&$top=#{top.to_s}&$skip=#{skip}"
          full_address = web_search_url + query_string + query_portion + params
          uri = URI(full_address)
          req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
          req.basic_auth user, account_key

          res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https'){|http|
              http.request(req)
          }
          body = JSON.parse(res.body)
          result_set = body["d"]["results"]   
          
end

search(search_term ) click to toggle source

# File lib/newsbing.rb, line 20
def search(search_term )
  results = []
  offset = 15 # MS SPECIFIC CONSTANT
  modulus = @num_results % offset
  results = []
  skip = 0
    until @num_results < offset
        results << hit_api(search_term, skip, offset)
        @num_results = @num_results - offset
        skip = skip + offset
    end
  results << hit_api(search_term, skip, modulus) 
  return results.flatten




end