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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from  Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467843
Pages 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Leif Larsen Leif Larsen
Profile icon Leif Larsen

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speak 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 LUIS Entities and Intents Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis 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://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/bing-news-search-api.

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 BingSearch.cs 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...
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