Bing Search API returns the "Resource Not Found" error

yjosms 31

I'm following the quickstart code here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-web-search/quickstarts/client-libraries?pivots=programming-language-python
I'm using a Bing Resource with the Free Tier.
The endpoint I'm using is https://api.bing.microsoft.com/

When I hit web_data = client.web.search(query="Yosemite"), I receive the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "

romungi-MSFT 48,121 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-24T12:44:58.74+00:00

@yjosms Thanks for reporting your issue. This error seems to be due to the recent migration of the service from cognitive services to bing, our team is aware of the same and are working to update the SDKs accordingly. You can use the existing keys directly with the REST API to get the correct response. We understand that this could be a frustrating experience until the SDKs are updated, we will update this issue with more details as soon as we have a fix. Thanks!!
yjosms 31 Reputation points

2020-11-26T10:06:50.36+00:00

Thanks, @romungi-MSFT
The sample code for the REST APIs in the official doc (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-web-search/quickstarts/python) doesn't work.
After many trials, I changed the search_url to https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search and it works now.
It would be really helpful if the doc is updated properly since this issue is really tricky to resolve.
romungi-MSFT 48,121 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-30T10:09:56.753+00:00

@yjosms Thanks for the response. Yes, the REST API with the above endpoint works but the client SDK still fails. Our team is currently looking to fix this soon.
Ross Murray 11 Reputation points

2021-07-05T23:19:16.923+00:00

Are your team still looking into this? I think the docs need to be updated to say the SDK no longer works if not.
Mikael Berglund 1 Reputation point

2021-07-22T21:43:06.777+00:00

Changing to that url worked for me as well, thanks.
mstrainer 1 Reputation point

2023-01-08T22:38:16.767+00:00

I have same problem Resource Not found still
Sai Kishore 0 Reputation points

2024-06-03T06:14:02.9566667+00:00

still client library sdk not updated ? @romungi-MSFT

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Anusha Vimal 10 Reputation points

2023-03-30T12:00:48.4133333+00:00

Changing to that URL doesn't work anymore.

It has been a year and this is still not fixed. When will Microsoft ever get to fixing this issue with the SDK?
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Lorenzo Balzani 10 Reputation points

2024-01-15T14:52:05.1966667+00:00

I resolved the issue. The problem lies in the following file: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/main/sdk/cognitiveservices/azure-cognitiveservices-search-websearch/azure/cognitiveservices/search/websearch/operations/_web_operations.py.

I changed url = self._client.format_url(url, **path_format_arguments) to url = path_format_arguments['Endpoint'] and the problem has been resolved. I've also submitted a PR, hoping they'll merge it asap.
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Lky 0 Reputation points

2024-05-28T08:19:22.4766667+00:00

Worked. Thank you!

Sai Kishore 0 Reputation points

2024-06-03T06:18:33.37+00:00

can you share the samples because still is not working

Garrett Rathbone 5 Reputation points

2024-07-10T15:55:56.7566667+00:00

Figured out a solution. You can update the base_url in the configuration object to remove the /bing/. base_url is set as

{Endpoint}/bing/v7.0

and need to update it to

{Endpoint}/v7.0

client = WebSearchClient(ENDPOINT, CognitiveServicesCredentials(SUBSCRIPTION_KEY)) client.web.config.base_url = "{Endpoint}/v7.0" web_data = client.web.search(query="xbox", location="global")

Dennis Feng (AIM Consulting Addison Group) 0 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-12-11T23:48:34.55+00:00

Garrett Rathbone's solution is what ended up working for me.

Would be nice if they either update the docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/quickstarts/sdk/web-search-client-library-python) to reflect that, or fix the client library, or mark the python client library as deprecated (in favor of REST API).
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John F 0 Reputation points

2023-07-01T05:44:50.0266667+00:00

The documentation across Bing and Azure search remains a mess - broken links, conflicting advice and ChatGPT gets lost trying to use Bing to help give accurate answers.

Maybe MS doesn't really want anyone using API's outside .NET?
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