find the gem on rubygems.org
gem install searchbing
An account key is needed to use the Bing Search API. You can create a new account for the Bing Search API and obtain account key here
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valid search types include: Image, Web, News or Video. The first letter must be capitalized
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this gem relies on the open-uri, net/http, and json gems.
require the gem in your shell session
require 'searchbing'
create a new search object, below 10 results are requested, you can retrieve up to 50 at a time
bing_image = Bing.new('your_account_key_goes_here', 10, 'Image')
retrieve the results for a given term
bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin")
or optionally specify an offset for your search, to start retrieving results from the starting point provided
bing_results = bing_image.search("puffin", 25)
parse the results(recent changes require parsing with symbols, also please note the data structure of the response coming from bing has also changed)
puts bing_results[0][:Image][0][:MediaUrl]
display the total number of results
puts bing_results[0]["ImageTotal"]