The following Java example creates a Url Preview for the SwiftKey Web site: https://swiftkey.com/en.
Get an access key for the free trial Cognitive Research Technologies
The following code creates a WebRequest
, sets the access key header, and adds a query string for "https://swiftkey.com/en". It then sends the request and assigns the response to a string to contain the JSON text.
// construct URL of search request (endpoint + query string)
static String host = "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com";
static String path = "/urlpreview/v7.0/search";
static String searchTerm = "https://swiftkey.com/en";
URL url = new URL(host + path + "?q=" + URLEncoder.encode(searchQuery, "UTF-8") + &mkt=en-us");
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", subscriptionKey);
// receive JSON body
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
String response = new Scanner(stream).useDelimiter("\\A").next();
// construct result object for return
SearchResults results = new SearchResults(new HashMap<String, String>(), response);
The Bing Answer Search API returns results from the Bing search engine.
- Download or install the gson library.
- Create a new Java project in your favorite IDE or editor.
- Add the code provided below.
- Replace the subscriptionKey value with an access key valid for your subscription.
- Run the program.
package UrlPreviewpkg;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
/*
* Gson: https://github.com/google/gson
* Maven info:
* groupId: com.google.code.gson
* artifactId: gson
* version: 2.8.1
*
* When you have compiled or downloaded gson-2.8.1.jar and have placed it in the
* same folder as this file (BingImageSearch.java), you can compile and run this program at
* the command line as follows.
*
* javac UrlPreviewcls.java -classpath .;gson-2.8.1.jar -encoding UTF-8
* java -cp .;gson-2.8.1.jar UrlPreview
*/
public class UrlPreview
{
// Replace the subscriptionKey string value with your valid subscription key.
static String subscriptionKey = "YOUR-ACCESS-KEY";
static String host = "https://api.labs.cognitive.microsoft.com";
static String path = "/urlpreview/v7.0/search";
static String searchTerm = "https://swiftkey.com/en";
public static SearchResults SearchImages (String searchQuery) throws Exception {
// construct URL of search request (endpoint + query string)
URL url = new URL(host + path + "?q=" + URLEncoder.encode(searchQuery, "UTF-8"));
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", subscriptionKey);
// receive JSON body
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
String response = new Scanner(stream).useDelimiter("\\A").next();
// construct result object for return
SearchResults results = new SearchResults(new HashMap<String, String>(), response);
// extract Bing-related HTTP headers
Map<String, List<String>> headers = connection.getHeaderFields();
for (String header : headers.keySet()) {
if (header == null) continue; // may have null key
if (header.startsWith("BingAPIs-") || header.startsWith("X-MSEdge-")) {
results.relevantHeaders.put(header, headers.get(header).get(0));
}
}
stream.close();
return results;
}
// pretty-printer for JSON; uses GSON parser to parse and re-serialize
public static String prettify(String json_text) {
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject json = parser.parse(json_text).getAsJsonObject();
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
return gson.toJson(json);
}
public static void main (String[] args) {
if (subscriptionKey.length() != 32) {
System.out.println("Invalid Bing Search API subscription key!");
System.out.println("Please paste yours into the source code.");
System.exit(1);
}
try {
System.out.println("Searching the Web for: " + searchTerm);
SearchResults result = SearchImages(searchTerm);
System.out.println("\nRelevant HTTP Headers:\n");
for (String header : result.relevantHeaders.keySet())
System.out.println(header + ": " + result.relevantHeaders.get(header));
System.out.println("\nJSON Response:\n");
System.out.println(prettify(result.jsonResponse));
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace(System.out);
System.exit(1);
}
}
}
//Container class for search results encapsulates relevant headers and JSON data
class SearchResults{
HashMap<String, String> relevantHeaders;
String jsonResponse;
SearchResults(HashMap<String, String> headers, String json) {
relevantHeaders = headers;
jsonResponse = json;
}
}