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March 4, 2016 14:40
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PowerShell script for searching and downloading images from the Bing API
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| function Get-BingPics { | |
| param( | |
| [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline=$true)] | |
| $q | |
| ) | |
| Process { | |
| $Key=$env:BingPicKey | |
| if(!$env:BingPicKey) { | |
| Throw '$env:BingPicKey needs to be set' | |
| } | |
| $Base64KeyBytes = [Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("ignored:$Key") | |
| $Base64Key = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Base64KeyBytes) | |
| $url = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Image?`$format=json&Query='$q'" | |
| $r=Invoke-RestMethod $url -Headers @{ 'Authorization' = "Basic $Base64Key" } | |
| $links = $r.d.results| % { | |
| '<a href="{1}"><img src="{0}" alt="{2}", title="{2}" /></a>' -f ($_.Thumbnail.MediaUrl),($_.MediaUrl),($_.Title) | |
| } | |
| @" | |
| <html> | |
| <body> | |
| <h1>"{0}" pictures</h1> | |
| {1} | |
| </body> | |
| </html> | |
| "@ -f $q, ($links -join ' ') | Set-Content -Encoding Ascii "c:\temp\pics.html" | |
| Invoke-Item "c:\temp\pics.html" | |
| } | |
| } |
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