bing.py

# Copyright (c) 2015 Johan Kanflo (github.com/kanflo)
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import json
import os
import urllib.request, re, urllib.parse
import ssl

# Bing image search for python

headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0'}

# Search for 'keywords' and return image URLs in a list or None if, well, none
# are found or an error occurred
def imageSearch(keywords):
    ctx = ssl.create_default_context()
    ctx.check_hostname = False
    ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
    filters = "" # TODO '+filterui:imagesize-large'
    current = 1
    url = 'https://www.bing.com/images/async?q=' + urllib.parse.quote_plus(keywords) + '&first=' + str(current) + '&count=35&adlt=0&qft=' + filters
    request = urllib.request.Request(url, None, headers = headers)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, context=ctx)
    html = response.read().decode('utf8')
    links = re.findall('murl":"(.*?)"', html)
    return links