Bing Image Search API Error 401: Permission Denied

Question

Hello

I am trying to follow the quickstart guide here for the image search API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/bing/search-apis/bing-image-search/quickstarts/rest/python
However, I get this error: 401 Client Error: PermissionDenied for url: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/images/search?q=puppies&license=public&imageType=photo
I have made various attempts to get this working based on answers to previous questions, but I cannot resolve it.

I have created a cognitive services and cognitive search resources, and used the keys from here. I have also just tried using my 'subscription' key from my main account.
What am I doing wrong?

Code below:

subscription_key = my_key
search_url = "https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/images/search"
search_term = "puppies"

headers = {"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key" : subscription_key}

params = {"q": search_term, "license": "public", "imageType": "photo"}

response = requests.get(search_url, headers=headers, params=params)
response.raise_for_status()
search_results = response.json()
thumbnail_urls = [img["thumbnailUrl"] for img in search_results["value"][:16]]

Answer 1

@ib_cheshire Are you are using the resource keys of the bing resource that is available from the marketplace?

I used the keys from this resource in this sample and it returned a response successfully.

# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.  
# Licensed under the MIT License.  
  
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-  
  
import json  
import os  
from pprint import pprint  
import requests  
  
'''  
This sample makes a call to the Bing Image Search API with a text query and returns relevant images with data.  
Documentation: https: // learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-web-search/  
'''  
  
# Add your Bing Search V7 subscription key and endpoint to your environment variables.  
subscriptionKey = "<your_key>"  
endpoint = "https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/images/search/"  
  
# Query to search for  
query = "puppies"  
  
# Construct a request  
mkt = 'en-US'  
params = {'q': query, 'mkt': mkt}  
headers = {'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': subscriptionKey}  
  
# Call the API  
try:  
    response = requests.get(endpoint, headers=headers, params=params)  
    response.raise_for_status()  
  
    print("\nHeaders:\n")  
    print(response.headers)  
  
    print("\nJSON Response:\n")  
    pprint(response.json())  
except Exception as ex:  
    raise ex