Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-14 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 14.06.2013 20:19, Yves S. Garret wrote: This is the error that I'm getting right now. import json from pprint import pprint path = '/home/azureuser/temp.json' with open(path) as data_file: ... data = json.load(data_file) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in Fil

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-14 Thread Yves S. Garret
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Kevin LaTona wrote: > > > Sounds like you are missing a closing } json bracket > > > Try a different json validator site to prove your json doc is working. > > > If it's the same doc you sent me last night it worked for me > > so maybe it got messed up moving it

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-14 Thread Kevin LaTona
Your welcome. To be honest I am not 100% on the differences between. I could be off, but I recall urllib2 was a more refined version of urllib. Yet it seems like urllib works better for me, when I need to do a simple call like this. -Kevin On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:50 PM, "Yves S. Garret"

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-14 Thread Kevin LaTona
I did a quick test with url lib instead of urllib2 and got closer. Problem right now is without ID code I can't check any further. But it does look promising at this point. If all else fails http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#examples import urllib f = urllib.urlopen('https://use

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-14 Thread Kevin LaTona
>>Queries should be URL encoded; query string should be enclosed in %27 >>(apostrophe). I was looking at the wrong column on the ascii chart,… so your %27 was correct If you are getting in via a browser than it's url lib thing. You might want to look at Requst lib as a possible option. http

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 14.06.2013 03:00, Yves S. Garret wrote: Thanks again Kevin. I'm deviating from the original thread, but I've got another issue. When I try to load the json file and then parse it, this is the error that I get: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1329549559 1) Please don't top post. Put your answer

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread Yves S. Garret
Thanks again Kevin. I'm deviating from the original thread, but I've got another issue. When I try to load the json file and then parse it, this is the error that I get: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1329549559 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kevin LaTona wrote: > > > Your welcome. > > > To be

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread Yves S. Garret
That works beautifully! Thank you! I do have one question, what are urllib and urllib2 then? I figured that urllib2 is a newer version of the previous library (and one that I should be using). Am I missing something? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Kevin LaTona wrote: > > I did a quick tes

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread Yves S. Garret
This is the format that I've been following: http://gavinmhackeling.com/blog/2012/05/using-the-bing-search-api-in-python/ If I execute the specified query from a browser, the JSON file shows up without a problem. Now, I'd like to do that programmatically. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Yves S

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread j...@studiosola.com
> Web?Query=%27xbox%20one%27& Plus do you really want to be sending in a %27 (which is a [ ) vs maybe a %20 (which is a space ) or even a %29 ( which is a ] ) Cross check your URL encoding is correct. -Kevin On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:09 PM, John Gordon wrote: > In "Yves

Re: Having a hard time to 'get' bing api search results

2013-06-13 Thread John Gordon
In "Yves S. Garret" writes: > Hello all, > This is my dilemma, I'm trying to get the generated JSON file using the > bing api search. > This is the code that I'm executing from inside the shell: > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/460660617 > The port doesn't matter to me. Thoughts? It looks lik