/bing-scraper

Scrapes search results from Bing Image and Web Search.

Primary LanguageHTML

Bing Scraper (In Progress)

Scrapes search results from Bing Image and 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'"
//             ]
//         ],
//         ...
//     ]
// ]