Microsoft Bing Search API
A tool that has served for many years is coming to an end. This API
Allows developers to integrate the power of Bing Search into their applications and get structured search results from massive web pages with just a few lines of code, without having to build a complex search engine from scratch.
As per the official notification, from August 11, 2025, theBing Search API
The service will be completely discontinued, existing users will not be able to continue to use it, and the new registration channel has been closed.
For developers, finding a stable, efficient and cost-effective alternative is urgent. Despite Microsoft's official announcement in Azure Marketplace
There are some third-party alternatives available, but this usually means that developers have to deal with new vendors, complex compliance reviews, and potentially higher integration costs, which is not easy for individual developers and small to medium-sized teams.
exist Agent
together with RAG
(Search Enhanced Generation) technology becomes AI
Application core architecture today, stable and instant online search capability has been the core requirement for building intelligent bodies.Bing Search API
The exit of the company has undoubtedly given many of the people who relied on its service AI
tool poses a potential risk of service disruption.
Against this backdrop, the market is rapidly seeing the emergence of new competitors. Last week, Secreta Technologies (Metaso
) has officially opened its search API
, providing developers with new options.
New option: Secret Tower Search API
minaret AI
Search (metaso.cn
) is a user-oriented AI
The search engine, with its open API
The service consists of three main types: search API
Web page full-text access API
and Q&A API
The service's pricing strategy is friendly to small-scale applications and testing scenarios. The service's pricing strategy is more friendly to small-scale applications and testing scenarios, with a single request costing about $0.03 and a free trial credit for new users.
1. Search API
ought to API
It is able to return multi-source, multi-modal real-time search results based on the query. Its search scope not only includes traditional data such as web pages, images and videos, but also covers content forms such as libraries and podcasts, and supports multi-language search. The returned data is in a structured format and contains meta-information such as source and release time.
Notably, it treats podcasts as an independent data source. Podcasts are one of the most important carriers of high-quality information and in-depth discussions today, and including podcast content in the search can help improve the depth and breadth of information access, especially for those who need in-depth knowledge of the AI
Applications.
2. Web page full-text access API
For those who need to build a knowledge base or perform data extraction Agent
For applications, direct processing of raw web pages HTML
is a tedious task. The API
Able to automatically crawl the target web page, and intelligently clean off the ads, navigation bar and other irrelevant noise, and directly return to the Markdown
maybe JSON
The formatting is pristine body text, while retaining images and paragraph structure.
3. Q&A API
It's a more advanced API
It goes beyond traditional linked lists and can directly address complex questions (such as "Analyze the key points of an earnings report" or "Summarize an event") by returning the information provided by the AI
The model integrates and summarizes the structured answers. At the same time, it supports the use of chat_completions
format output, which can be seamlessly interfaced to existing LLM
in the workflow.
Quick Start Guide
Developers can access the metaso.cn
Register and get API Key
If you are a new user, you will get 5000 free points for testing.
Officially available Python
cap (a poem) Node.js
sample code, developers can quickly complete the docking and testing.
The following is an example of how to use the Python
Call Search API
The basic example of the Note that theheaders
hit the nail on the head Bearer token
It needs to be replaced with your own account's API Key
The
import http.client
import json
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("metaso.cn")
payload = json.dumps({
"q": "谁是这个世界上最美丽的女人",
"scope": "webpage",
"includeSummary": False,
"includeRowContent": False,
"size": "10"
})
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Bearer mk-YourOwnApiKey',
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
conn.request("POST", "/api/v1/search", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
According to its official information, Secret Tower Search API
Based on the actual application of its products, the product has been running stably with an average daily request volume of ten million, with a response latency of less than 1 second.
Other market alternatives
Of course, Secret Tower is not the only option. Developers can also consider the following proven services when choosing an alternative:
- Google Custom Search API:: Search provided by Google
API
, powerful, but usually tied to the Google ecosystem and more expensive. - SerpApi: A company specializing in providing various search engine results
API
The service provider, which supports multiple search engines such as Google, Baidu, Bing, etc., has a high degree of data structuring, but is a third-party crawling service. - Brave Search API: by Privacy Browser
Brave
offer, which focuses on independent, unbiased search indexing, provides developers with a new choice of data sources.
Bing Search API
's retirement marks the end of an era, but it also sets the stage for the AI
The underlying technology stack for applications presents new opportunities for growth. For developers, this is an opportunity to re-evaluate and choose a search service provider.