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Bing Search Reader

Note

This adapter is in preview and is available on Striim Developer only. See Striim Developer for more information.

Microsoft Bing Search is a cloud-based search engine platform designed to help users find information, websites, images, videos, and other types of content across the web. It offers features like AI-powered search, voice search, and personalized results. Additionally, Bing provides tools for optimizing SEO and improving online presence through Microsoft Advertising and analytics.

Feature summary

Feature

Supported?

Notes

Objects

Standard objects

✓

Custom objects

✓

Authentication

Basic authentication

✓

API key

OAuth authentication

Manual configuration based

Custom authentication methods

Not all methods may be supported

Operations

Automated mode

✓

Initial load

✓

Pull-based incremental load

✓

Push-based incremental load

Automated pipeline

Governance

Connection profile

Sherlock AI

Sentinel AI

Schema handling

Initial schema creation

✓

Works with supported targets

Schema evolution

Setup

Wizard template

Flow Designer

✓

Striim TQL

✓

Runtime

Resilience/recovery

✓

Parallel execution

Metrics

✓

Standard metrics

Supported objects

The Bing Search Reader can read from the following supported objects in Microsoft Bing:

  • ImageSearch

  • NewsSearch

  • Search

  • VideoSearch

  • WebSearch

Supported authentication

The Bing Search Reader supports connecting to Bing using basic authentication. Creating a connection requires accessing the Azure Portal, locating the Bing service, creating a resource group and instance, and obtaining an API key.

To create a connection using basic authentication:

  1. Go to the Azure Portal and sign in (or create a free account if needed).

  2. In the search bar, type "Bing" and select Bing Search v7 or Bing Search Services from the Marketplace.

  3. Choose your subscription and select a region close to your users.

  4. Select an existing resource group or create a new one. Enter a name for the instance (for example, >MyBingSearchAPI), and click Create.

  5. After deploying your app, go to the Keys and Endpoint section of your resource. Copy the keys and use them as your APIKey in your connection setup.

Bing Search Reader properties

Property

Type

Default value

Notes

Client ID

String

Client ID of the private app registered in the Active Directory of the Microsoft platform.

Client secret

Password

Client secret of the private app registered in the Active Directory of the Microsoft platform.

Connection pool size

Integer

20

Specifies the maximum number of active connections.

Exclude tables

String

A list of tables excluded from read operations. Typically used to create a list of exceptions when the Tables property includes wildcards. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors.

Incremental load marker

String

The incremental load marker is a unique incremental column in each object used for incremental load. When no marker is specified, tables are resynced at each polling interval.

Specify the name of the column that contains the start position value. This column must meet the following criteria:

  • It should have an integer or timestamp data type (for example, a creation timestamp or an employee ID).

  • The values must be unique and continuously increasing to ensure proper incremental reading.

Migrate schema

Boolean

False

Only available in Initial Load or Automated mode. Set to True to enable initial schema migration, which propagates the object schema from the source to the target.

Mode

Select list:

  • Automated mode

  • Initial load

  • Incremental load

Automated

Automated mode applies incremental updates to objects that support incremental load and performs full resyncs for objects that do not support incremental load.

Polling interval

Integer

5m

Specifies an interval as an integer followed by a unit. Supported units are days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), or seconds (s). The reader polls the source at the specified interval.

Refresh token

Password

An OAuth 2.0 refresh token.Use the value generated while creating the token.

Start Position

String

%=-1

Value of the incremental load marker that defines the initial reading position.

Tables

String

A semicolon-delimited (;) list of objects to read from the source. Supports the % wildcard. Misconfiguration of the Tables and Exclude Tables properties can cause "Invalid table names" errors. Do not modify this property when recovery is enabled for the application.

Thread pool count

Integer

10

The number of parallel running threads. The default value of zero specifies single-threaded operation.

When the value of the thread pool counter is higher than the connection pool size, large data ingestion operations can cause the app to halt. Since best performance is achieved when using one thread for each table being synced, increasing the size of the connection pool to match the number of threads in use is a performance best practice.