SERP API Bing Query Parameters

Learn about Thordata’s SERP API - Bing search query parameters.

Search Term Example:

curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
q	Search Term	Specify search keywords	q=pizza

Localization Used to specify the language and habits of search results, as well as advertisements. Example:

curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza&cc=af&mkt=zh-hk" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
cc	Country	Result region (affects search results), set only the country, country/region code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).	cc=US，cc=CN..
mkt	Language	Target market (affects search results and ads), set both language and country.	mkt=en-US，mkt=zh-CN...

Geolocation Used to specify the encoded location for the search, which will change the geographical location of the search. You can download a file containing all available values here. Example: curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza&location=Antarctica&lat=73&lon=42" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
location	Location	Specify the geographic location of the search results, to be used together with the lat (latitude) and lon (longitude) parameters.	location=Ecuador&lat=73&lon=42

Pagination Used to define the result offset (the offset from which results start) and the number of search results. The default number of search results is 10, with a maximum of 100. The actual number of results returned may be less than the requested number. Example:

curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza&first=10&count=100" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
first	Pagination	Specify search page number (offset)	first=10 (Page 2)
count	Results per page	Specify the number of results per search page	count=50 (Maximum value 100)

Safety Used to decide whether search results should block adult content. Example:

curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza&adlt=strict" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
adlt	Safe	nable/Disable Adult Content Filtering	adlt=strict (Enable) adlt=off (Disable)

Parsing A custom Thordata parameter that allows the return of parsed JSON instead of raw HTML. Example:

curl -k "https://www.bing.com/search?q=pizza&json=1" --proxy scraping.thordata.com:30001 --proxy-user td-customer-serp_USERNAME:PASSWORD

Parameter	Name	Function	Parameter Value
json	Parsing	Specify output format	No json value (returns HTML) json=1 (returns JSON) json=2 (returns JSON + HTML)