Lesson 2: Question on How to Get a Bing Image Search API key

Part 1 (2020)
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While applying for a Bing Search Key on Azure, there is a problem occurred. There is no choice for pricing tiers available, however, it is a value that can not be empty. Because of that, a Bing Search Source can not be created. Does anyone have met this problem before?

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Without choosing the pricing tier, no Bing Search Source can be created

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You can check out here Downloading images | Practical Deep Learning for Coders

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You might also want to check out the ‘is it a bird’ kaggle notebook that Jeremy recently shared on Twitter. It has a pretty nice way to download images from duckduckgo which I think you’ll find less painful than using Bing.

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Thank you for those useful information :smiling_face:. I found that to use DuckDuckGo in chapter 2, some code should be changed, I combined code from Downloading images | Practical Deep Learning for Coders and Is it a bird? Creating a model from your own data | Kaggle, and find the code working well :smiley:

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That’s awesome! Would you mind sharing the code you developed?

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Sure! Though there may be some unseen bugs, the code runs smoothly in my computer. You may check it out :relieved:

from fastbook import *
urls = search_images_ddg('grizzly bear', max_images=150)
len(urls),urls[0]

download_url(urls[7], 'images/bear.jpg')
im = Image.open('images/bear.jpg')
im.thumbnail((256,256))
im

for o in bear_types:
    dest = (path/o)
    dest.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
    download_images(dest, urls=search_images_ddg(f'{o} bear'))
    resize_images(path/o, max_size=400, dest=path/o)
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I found the way to address the pricing tier issue of Bing.
This problem may be caused by not having “Microsoft Bing” registered as a “Resource Provider”, so after that is done, Bing Search v7 resources can be created.

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This worked for me. Thank you!

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Hi

I am still struggling as to where can I locate Bing Image Search API key. I have navigated links through the course notebook (colab), through forum discussions but even on Bing Image Search API page, I could not locate any section that leads me to getting an API key.

Would appreciate if someone can advise a step wise process with links which are working in present.

Thanks