Unable to retrieve images using ImageSearchClient

Question

My requirement is to get images from the web. What I tried is -

1. I created a Bing search resource to get keys and endpoint. I now have two keys for the endpoint - https://api.bing.microsoft.com/
2. Ran the below code in a python notebook. from azure.cognitiveservices.search.imagesearch import ImageSearchClient as api
   from msrest.authentication import CognitiveServicesCredentials as auth key = <value of my key> client = api('https://api.bing.microsoft.com/', auth(key))
   p = client.images.search(query='grizzly bear', count=1, min_height=128, min_width=128)
3. Last line gives a ErrorResponseException: Operation returned an invalid status code 'Resource Not Found' error.

Please advise.

Answer 1

@ac , Apologies for the delay!

For Azure cognitive search stand-point, create an instance of CognitiveServicesCredentials, and use it to instantiate the client, this way instead to isolate:

client = ImageSearchClient(endpoint=subscription_endpoint, credentials=CognitiveServicesCredentials(subscription_key))  

Kindly review for correctness, replace the values with this:
SUBSCRIPTION_KEY with a valid subscription key.
YOUR_ENDPOINT with your endpoint url in portal and remove the bing/v7.0 section from the endpoint.

Also, the Python implementation adds automatically the Bing version, refer to a similar discussion.

If you're using version 1.2.0 or below for the Bing Image Search client library, use ImageSearchAPI() instead of ImageSearchClient() to initialize your search client.

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