Quickstart: Use the Bing News Search JavaScript client library

Use this quickstart to begin searching for news with the Bing News Search client library for JavaScript. While Bing News Search has a REST API compatible with most programming languages, the client library provides an easy way to integrate the service into your applications. The source code for this sample can be found on GitHub.

Prerequisites

• Node.js

To set up a console application using the Bing News Search client library:

1. Run npm install ms-rest-azure in your development environment.
2. Run npm install azure-cognitiveservices-newssearch in your development environment.

Create and initialize the application

1. Create an instance of the CognitiveServicesCredentials. Create variables for your subscription key, and a search term.

   const CognitiveServicesCredentials = require('ms-rest-azure').CognitiveServicesCredentials;
   let credentials = new CognitiveServicesCredentials('YOUR-ACCESS-KEY');
   let search_term = 'Winter Olympics'
   

2. instantiate the client:

   const NewsSearchAPIClient = require('azure-cognitiveservices-newssearch');
   let client = new NewsSearchAPIClient(credentials);
   

Send a search query

1. Use the client to search with a query term, in this case "Winter Olympics":

   client.newsOperations.search(search_term).then((result) => {
       console.log(result.value);
   }).catch((err) => {
       throw err;
   });
   

The code prints result.value items to the console without parsing any text. The results, if any per category, will include:

• _type: 'NewsArticle'
• _type: 'WebPage'
• _type: 'VideoObject'
• _type: 'ImageObject'

Next steps

Create a single-page web app