# Bing Search Scraper (`codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper`) Actor Scrapes organic search results from Bing for any query. Extracts title, link, displayed URL, snippet, date, and position. - **URL**: https://apify.com/codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [codingfrontend](https://apify.com/codingfrontend) (community) - **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, Other - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Bing Search Scraper An Apify actor that scrapes organic search results from **Bing** for any query. ### Features - Extracts **title, link, displayed URL, snippet, date, and position** for every organic result. - Automatic **pagination** – keeps scrolling through Bing pages until `maxItems` is reached. - Supports **market / region** codes (`en-US`, `en-GB`, `de-DE`, …). - Proxy support via Apify Proxy or custom proxy configuration. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | | -------------------- | ------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | | `query` | string | `artificial intelligence` | Search term to look up on Bing. | | `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Maximum number of results to return. | | `market` | string | `en-US` | Bing market code (language-country). | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy | Proxy settings for the crawler. | #### Example input ```json { "query": "artificial intelligence", "maxItems": 50, "market": "en-US", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ```` ### Output Each result in the dataset contains: | Field | Type | Description | | ------------ | ------- | ----------------------------------------------- | | `position` | integer | Rank of the result across all pages. | | `title` | string | Title of the search result. | | `link` | string | URL of the search result. | | `displayUrl` | string | URL as displayed by Bing in the SERP. | | `snippet` | string | Description snippet shown in the SERP. | | `date` | string | Date shown next to the result (if any). | | `query` | string | The original search query. | | `market` | string | The market code used for this search. | ### Running locally ```bash npm install npm start ``` Place your input in `storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json` before running. # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): Use 'search' to scrape results for a query, or 'url' to scrape specific Bing search URLs. ## `query` (type: `string`): The search term to look up on Bing (used when mode = search). ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): List of Bing search URLs to scrape directly (used when mode = url). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of organic results to scrape. ## `market` (type: `string`): Bing market code (language-country), e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE. ## `headless` (type: `boolean`): Run browser in headless mode (recommended for performance). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings for the crawler. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "startUrls": [], "maxItems": 50, "market": "en-US", "headless": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "startUrls": [], "market": "en-US", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "startUrls": [], "market": "en-US", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "startUrls": [], "market": "en-US", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=codingfrontend/bing-search-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Bing Search Scraper", "description": "Scrapes organic search results from Bing for any query. Extracts title, link, displayed URL, snippet, date, and position.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "gEZG9I3CdQdb8yqx2" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/codingfrontend~bing-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-codingfrontend-bing-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/codingfrontend~bing-search-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-codingfrontend-bing-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/codingfrontend~bing-search-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-codingfrontend-bing-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "mode": { "title": "Scraping Mode", "enum": [ "search", "url" ], "type": "string", "description": "Use 'search' to scrape results for a query, or 'url' to scrape specific Bing search URLs.", "default": "search" }, "query": { "title": "Search Query", "type": "string", "description": "The search term to look up on Bing (used when mode = search)." }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "List of Bing search URLs to scrape directly (used when mode = url).", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of organic results to scrape.", "default": 50 }, "market": { "title": "Market / Region", "type": "string", "description": "Bing market code (language-country), e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE." }, "headless": { "title": "Headless Mode", "type": "boolean", "description": "Run browser in headless mode (recommended for performance).", "default": true }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy Configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings for the crawler." } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": 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