Bing Scraper (In Progress)

Scrapes search results from Bing Image and Web Search.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Bing Image Search
  • Bing Web Search

Installation

Composer and vanilla PHP

Add this package to your composer.json file with the following command

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

# Add BingScraper as a dependency
php composer.phar require mojopollo/bing-scraper

Next, require Composer's autoloader in your application to automatically load the BingScraper class into your project:

// Load the composer autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Alias the scraper classes
use Mojopollo\BingScraper\Image as BingImageScraper;
use Mojopollo\BingScraper\Web as BingWebScraper;

Composer and Laravel 5

composer require mojopollo/bing-scraper

Next, add the following laravel 5 service provider by modifying your app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php as so:

public function register()
{
    $this->app->register('Mojopollo\BingScraper\ImageServiceProvider');
}

Usage

Bing Image Search

In progress

Laravel

Vanilla PHP

// Load the composer autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Alias the scraper image class
use Mojopollo\BingScraper\Image as BingImageScraper;

// Instantiate image scraper class
$bingImageScraper = new BingImageScraper;

// Set options and scrape
// see "options" section in this readme for all available options
$bingImageScraper
    ->query('sloth smiling')
    ->safe('strict')
    ->type('photograph')
    ->scrape();

// This is what you get back

// [
//     'meta' => [
//         'status' => 200,
//         'error' => null,
//         'count' => 20
//     ],
//     'results' => [
//         [
//             'url' => 'http://example.com/my-sloths',
//             'image' => 'http://example.com/my-sloths/images/sloth-smiling.jpg',
//             'width' => '1900',
//             'height' => '600',
//             'format' => 'jpeg',
//             'meta' => [
//               'ns' => 'images',
//               'k' => '3599',
//               'mid' => 'FXDP1BZ7EHN12BL7O2QVTZOXO0UYTGSRDHKF1COX',
//               'cid' => 'zAN2dtE2',
//               'md5' => '49f68a5c8493ec2c0bf489821c21fc3b',
//               'tid' => 'OIP.O6qE4AQEPKPewVVT746gVXk6dqMNIsQEybC',
//               'docid' => '329832932856960383',
//               'tft' => '45',
//               'mw' => '634',
//               'mh' => '1024',
//               'thH' => '300',
//               'thW' => '18'"
//             ]
//         ],
//         ...
//     ]
// ]