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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Leverage Machine Learning APIs to build smart applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623025
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces 11. LUIS Entities and Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis 12. License Information

Getting the news


Using the Bing News Search API, we can search for news in several ways. There are three endpoints we use for this API:

  • /news: Get top news articles, based on category
  • /news/search: Get news articles based on a search query
  • /news/trendingtopics: Get top trending news topics

In our smart-house application, we will add the first two, while we will only cover the last one theoretically.

Note

If you have not already done so, sign up for the Bing News Search API at https://portal.azure.com.

News from queries

A lot of the groundwork for query-based news searches have already been done in the web search sample. To search for news based on given queries, we need to add a new function in the BingSearch class.

Open the BingSearch.cs file and add a new function called SearchNews. This should accept a string and a SafeSearch parameter. The function should be marked as async, and return a Task<BingNewsResponse> object:

public async Task<BingNewsResponse> SearchNews(string query, SafeSearch...
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