Quickstart: Use the Bing Video Search .NET client library
Use this quickstart to begin searching for news with the Bing Video Search client library for C#. While Bing Video Search has a REST API compatible with most programming languages, the client library provides an easy way to integrate the service into your applications. The source code for this sample can be found on GitHub with additional annotations, and features.
Prerequisites
- Any edition of Visual Studio 2017 or later.
- The Json.NET framework, available as a NuGet package.
To add the Bing Video Search client library to your project, select Manage NuGet Packages from Solution Explorer in Visual Studio. Add the Microsoft.Azure.CognitiveServices.Search.VideoSearch
package.
Installing the NuGet Video Search SDK package also installs the following dependencies:
- Microsoft.Rest.ClientRuntime
- Microsoft.Rest.ClientRuntime.Azure
- Newtonsoft.Json
Create and initialize a project
Create a new C# console solution in Visual Studio. Then add the following into the main code file.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using Microsoft.Azure.CognitiveServices.Search.VideoSearch; using Microsoft.Azure.CognitiveServices.Search.VideoSearch.Models;
Instantiate the client by creating a new
ApiKeyServiceClientCredentials
object with your subscription key, and then calling the constructor.var client = new VideoSearchAPI(new ApiKeyServiceClientCredentials("YOUR-ACCESS-KEY"));
Send a search request and process the results
Use the client to send a search request. Use "SwiftKey" for the search query.
var videoResults = client.Videos.SearchAsync(query: "SwiftKey").Result;
If any results were returned, get the first one with
videoResults.Value[0]
. Then print the video's ID, title, and URL.if (videoResults.Value.Count > 0) { var firstVideoResult = videoResults.Value[0]; Console.WriteLine($"\r\nVideo result count: {videoResults.Value.Count}"); Console.WriteLine($"First video id: {firstVideoResult.VideoId}"); Console.WriteLine($"First video name: {firstVideoResult.Name}"); Console.WriteLine($"First video url: {firstVideoResult.ContentUrl}"); } else { Console.WriteLine("Couldn't find video results!"); }