Unable to obtain results with Entity Search Python library or query to REST API

Question

I just attempted my first entity search query with the Python library and by sending a query to the REST API. In both cases, I'm seeing Access Denied error messages.

Once I've spun up the resource, do I need to do something additional to access it? I've got a Jupyter notebook on my local machine from which I'm trying to query entity search.

Answer 1

@Chris Diehl Are you using the bing resource of Azure entity search? If Yes, then the subscription key of this resource with endpoint 'api.bing.microsoft.com' should work. Here is a working example to call with REST API.

import http.client, urllib.parse  
import json  
  
subscriptionKey = '<your_key>'  
host = 'api.bing.microsoft.com'  
path = '/v7.0/search'  
mkt = 'en-US'  
query = 'italian restaurants near me'  
  
params = '?mkt=' + mkt + '&q=' + urllib.parse.quote (query)  
  
def get_suggestions ():  
    headers = {'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': subscriptionKey}  
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection (host)  
    conn.request ("GET", path + params, None, headers)  
    response = conn.getresponse ()  
    return response.read()  
  
  
result = get_suggestions ()  
print (json.dumps(json.loads(result), indent=4))  

If you are using the key from the cognitive service resource of bing search with this endpoint then this error is possible. All bing search resources from cognitive services used a different endpoint and will error out.