///Method that return the number of Results of a Bing Search
public static long?BingSearchResults(string searchTerm)
{
string searchURL = "https://www.bing.com/search?q=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(searchTerm);
string responseString = HttpAssistance.GetHTML(searchURL);
//Filter and return result
return(long.Parse(GetStringBetween(responseString, "<span class=\"sb_count\">", " ").Replace(".", "")));
/*
* //Pay api - Limited to 1000 search/month
* const string accessKey = "09f417ce9ae34ad3bcddbf0261187317";
* const string uriBase = "https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/search?q={0}";
*
* var request = WebRequest.Create(string.Format(uriBase, searchTerm));
* request.Headers["Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"] = accessKey;
*
* HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponseAsync().Result;
* Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
* StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
* string responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
*
* //No library allowed
* dynamic jsonData = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(responseString);
* return jsonData.webPages.totalEstimatedMatches;
*/
}
///Method that return the number of Results of a Yahoo Search
public static long?YahooSearchResults(string searchTerm)
{
string searchURL = "https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(searchTerm);
string responseString = HttpAssistance.GetHTML(searchURL);
return(long.Parse(GetStringBetween(GetStringBetween(responseString, "<div class=\"compPagination\">", "</div>"), "<span>", " ").Replace(",", "")));
}