Search & SEO

Bing Search API

The Bing Search API returns web, news and video search results as clean JSON.

4 actionsLive JSON1,000 free creditsMCP-ready

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The primary search endpoint returns results with position, title, URL and displayed URL, and you can pull news, videos and autocomplete. It is built for SERP monitoring, research and AI pipelines that need a second search source alongside Google. One ReefAPI key, one shared credit pool, the standard envelope.

Live example

Real request and response JSON

Captured from the indexed primary action, search, on Jul 18, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC.

Captured request

{
  "method": "POST",
  "url": "https://api.reefapi.com/bing/v1/search",
  "headers": {
    "x-api-key": "$REEF_KEY",
    "content-type": "application/json"
  },
  "body": {
    "q": "best laptop 2026",
    "engine": "bing",
    "gl": "us"
  }
}

Captured response

{
  "ok": true,
  "meta": {
    "api": "bing",
    "endpoint": "search",
    "mode": "live",
    "latency_ms": 907.1,
    "record_count": 10,
    "bytes": 126158,
    "cache_hit": false,
    "completeness_pct": 100,
    "total_estimate": 429000,
    "mkt": "en-US",
    "related_count": 0,
    "has_answer": false,
    "pagination_note": "page1"
  },
  "data": {
    "engine": "bing",
    "query": "best laptop 2026",
    "mkt": "en-US",
    "page_offset": 1,
    "total_estimate": 429000,
    "count": 10,
    "results": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "title": "The Best Laptops We've Tested (July 2026) - PCMag",
        "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-laptops",
        "displayed_url": "pcmag.com",
        "domain": "www.pcmag.com",
        "favicon": "https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.pcmag.com.ico",
        "snippet": "4 days ago · Whether you want a simple budget PC, a productivity workhorse, or a screamer of a gaming notebook, our experts have …"
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "title": "Best Laptops 2026 - Forbes Vetted",
        "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-laptop/",
        "displayed_url": "forbes.com",
        "domain": "www.forbes.com",
        "favicon": "https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.forbes.com.ico",
        "snippet": "Jun 15, 2026 · Here are the best laptops you can buy today, for different types of consumers and use cases. We tested over 20 …"
      },
      {
        "position": 3,
        "title": "Best Laptops 2026: Our benchmarked picks for productivity ...",
        "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/best-laptops",
        "displayed_url": "tomshardware.com",
        "domain": "www.tomshardware.com",
        "favicon": "https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.tomshardware.com.ico",
        "snippet": "Laptops Best Laptops 2026: Our benchmarked picks for productivity, portability, and battery life Best Picks By Andrew E. Freedman"
      }
    ],
    "related_searches": [],
    "answer_box": null
  }
}

Actions

What the Bing Search API does

Action	Description	Concrete use case	Key params
search	Bing web search results — ranked organic pages with title, URL, snippet, answer box and related searches. Filter by market/language (mkt or gl/hl), SafeSearch and recency (freshness), with offset pagination.	SEO teams call search to get bing web search results.	q, engine, depth, mkt, gl, ...
news	Bing News results for a keyword — article title, source, URL and snippet, sorted by recency. Filter by market and a recency window (freshness).	Content strategists call news to get bing News results for a keyword.	q, mkt, gl, hl, count, ...
videos	Bing video search results — watch-page URL, thumbnail, duration and hosting platform (YouTube/Dailymotion/…) for every result; publisher/channel, view count, publish date and description when Bing exposes them. ~30 videos per page; paginate for more.	Rank trackers call videos to get bing video search results.	q, mkt, gl, hl, page, ...
autocomplete	Bing search autocomplete — query suggestions / typeahead from Bing's public suggest endpoint (fast, no anti-bot). Useful for keyword research.	AI answer-monitoring tools call autocomplete to get bing search autocomplete.	q, mkt, gl, hl

Code samples

Call search from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/bing/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"best laptop 2026","engine":"bing","gl":"us"}'

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.reefapi.com/bing/v1/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
    json={
  "q": "best laptop 2026",
  "engine": "bing",
  "gl": "us"
},
)
print(r.json()["data"])

const res = await fetch("https://api.reefapi.com/bing/v1/search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "x-api-key": process.env.REEF_KEY,
    "content-type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "q": "best laptop 2026",
  "engine": "bing",
  "gl": "us"
}),
});
const { ok, data, meta, error } = await res.json();

MCP one-liner

Ask your MCP-connected assistant: call reefapi.bing.search with {"q":"best laptop 2026","engine":"bing","gl":"us"}.

Use cases

Who uses this API and why

SEO tools call search to track Bing rankings for target keywords.
Research products use news and videos for broader coverage.
AI pipelines use search as a retrieval source for grounding.

FAQ

Questions developers ask before integrating

What is the Bing Search API?

Bing Search API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for bing search It returns live JSON through POST requests under /bing/v1.

Is the Bing Search API free to try?

Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Bing Search calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.

Do I need a Bing Search login or account?

No login to Bing Search is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.

How fresh is the Bing Search data?

The page example is captured from a live search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.

How many credits does the Bing Search API use?

Bing Search actions currently cost 1 credit per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free, and all APIs draw from one credit pool.

Can I call Bing Search from an AI assistant or MCP client?

Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call bing actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.

Is the Bing Search API a Bing Search scraper?

It is the managed alternative to a DIY Bing Search scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same bing search back as clean JSON.

Why does my Bing Search scraper keep getting blocked?

Most Bing Search scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked or failed calls are free.

docs / bing

Bing Search

base /bing/v14 endpoints

post/bing/v1/search1 credit

Bing web search results — ranked organic pages with title, URL, snippet, answer box and related searches. Filter by market/language (mkt or gl/hl), SafeSearch and recency (freshness), with offset pagination.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
q	required	—	Search query (the keywords to look up).
engine = auto	optional	auto · brave · bing · gnews · gemini · yandex	Which search index to query. Leave on auto. Bing is kept for callers who explicitly want it, but it ignores search operators and matches individual words rather than the whole query, so it returns dictionary and generic pages for many real queries.
depth = exact	optional	exact · deep	How hard the gemini backend should work on one request. Ignored by the other search backends.
mkt	optional	—	Bing market as lang-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE). Controls locale regardless of exit IP. If omitted it is derived from gl + hl.
gl	optional	—	Country as a 2-letter ISO-3166 code (e.g. us, gb, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
hl	optional	—	Language as an ISO-639 code (e.g. en, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
count	optional	1–30	Requested results (1-30; clamped). Note: Bing caps organic search results at ~10 per page regardless of count.
page	optional	1–	1-based page for offset pagination (best-effort: Bing's bare pagination is session/IP-sensitive and may repeat page 1).
first	optional	1–	Explicit 1-based result offset (alternative to page; first=11 ~ page 2). Best-effort.
safe	optional	off · moderate · strict	Bing SafeSearch level (search only). An unrecognized value is ignored.
freshness	optional	day · week · month	Restrict results to a recency window (Bing `qft` interval). Single-letter forms d/w/m are also accepted; an unrecognized value is ignored.
device	optional	desktop · mobile	User-agent profile. Only 'mobile' changes behavior; any other value is desktop.

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post/bing/v1/news1 credit

Bing News results for a keyword — article title, source, URL and snippet, sorted by recency. Filter by market and a recency window (freshness).

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
q	required	—	Search query (the keywords to look up).
mkt	optional	—	Bing market as lang-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE). Controls locale regardless of exit IP. If omitted it is derived from gl + hl.
gl	optional	—	Country as a 2-letter ISO-3166 code (e.g. us, gb, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
hl	optional	—	Language as an ISO-639 code (e.g. en, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
count	optional	1–50	Requested results (1-50; clamped). Note: Bing caps organic search results at ~10 per page regardless of count.
freshness	optional	day · week · month	Restrict results to a recency window (Bing `qft` interval). Single-letter forms d/w/m are also accepted; an unrecognized value is ignored.

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post/bing/v1/videos1 credit

Bing video search results — watch-page URL, thumbnail, duration and hosting platform (YouTube/Dailymotion/…) for every result; publisher/channel, view count, publish date and description when Bing exposes them. ~30 videos per page; paginate for more.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
q	required	—	Search query (the keywords to look up).
mkt	optional	—	Bing market as lang-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE). Controls locale regardless of exit IP. If omitted it is derived from gl + hl.
gl	optional	—	Country as a 2-letter ISO-3166 code (e.g. us, gb, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
hl	optional	—	Language as an ISO-639 code (e.g. en, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
page	optional	1–	1-based result page (each page ≈ 30 items).
first	optional	1–	Explicit 1-based result offset (alternative to page; first=11 ~ page 2). Best-effort.
safe	optional	off · moderate · strict	Bing SafeSearch level (search only). An unrecognized value is ignored.

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post/bing/v1/autocomplete1 credit

Bing search autocomplete — query suggestions / typeahead from Bing's public suggest endpoint (fast, no anti-bot). Useful for keyword research.

Parameter		Allowed / range	Description
q	required	—	Search query (the keywords to look up).
mkt	optional	—	Bing market as lang-COUNTRY (e.g. en-US, en-GB, de-DE). Controls locale regardless of exit IP. If omitted it is derived from gl + hl.
gl	optional	—	Country as a 2-letter ISO-3166 code (e.g. us, gb, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.
hl	optional	—	Language as an ISO-639 code (e.g. en, de) — used to build mkt when mkt is absent.

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Example request · search

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/bing/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"best laptop 2026","engine":"bing","gl":"us"}'

Response shape

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": { /* the result */ },
  "meta": {
    "latency_ms": 240,
    "record_count": 12,
    "completeness_pct": 100
  },
  "error": null
}