# searx.engines.bing_images — SearXNG Documentation (2025.6.29+60be0f453)

# Source code for searx.engines.bing_images

    # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
    """Bing-Images: description see :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing`.
    """
    # pylint: disable=invalid-name

    from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
    import json
    from urllib.parse import urlencode

    from lxml import html

    from searx.enginelib.traits import EngineTraits
    from searx.engines.bing import set_bing_cookies
    from searx.engines.bing import fetch_traits  # pylint: disable=unused-import

    if TYPE_CHECKING:
        import logging

        logger = logging.getLogger()

    traits: EngineTraits

    # about
    about = {
        "website": 'https://www.bing.com/images',
        "wikidata_id": 'Q182496',
        "official_api_documentation": 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-image-search-api',
        "use_official_api": False,
        "require_api_key": False,
        "results": 'HTML',
    }

    # engine dependent config
    categories = ['images', 'web']
    paging = True
    safesearch = True
    time_range_support = True

    base_url = 'https://www.bing.com/images/async'
    """Bing (Images) search URL"""

    time_map = {
        'day': 60 * 24,
        'week': 60 * 24 * 7,
        'month': 60 * 24 * 31,
        'year': 60 * 24 * 365,
    }

    def request(query, params):
        """Assemble a Bing-Image request."""

        engine_region = traits.get_region(params['searxng_locale'], traits.all_locale)  # type: ignore
        engine_language = traits.get_language(params['searxng_locale'], 'en')  # type: ignore
        set_bing_cookies(params, engine_language, engine_region)

        # build URL query
        # - example: https://www.bing.com/images/async?q=foo&async=content&first=1&count=35
        query_params = {
            'q': query,
            'async': '1',
            # to simplify the page count lets use the default of 35 images per page
            'first': (int(params.get('pageno', 1)) - 1) * 35 + 1,
            'count': 35,
        }

        # time range
        # - example: one year (525600 minutes) 'qft=+filterui:age-lt525600'

        if params['time_range']:
            query_params['qft'] = 'filterui:age-lt%s' % time_map[params['time_range']]

        params['url'] = base_url + '?' + urlencode(query_params)

        return params

    def response(resp):
        """Get response from Bing-Images"""

        results = []
        dom = html.fromstring(resp.text)

        for result in dom.xpath('//ul[contains(@class, "dgControl_list")]/li'):

            metadata = result.xpath('.//a[@class="iusc"]/@m')
            if not metadata:
                continue

            metadata = json.loads(result.xpath('.//a[@class="iusc"]/@m')[0])
            title = ' '.join(result.xpath('.//div[@class="infnmpt"]//a/text()')).strip()
            img_format = ' '.join(result.xpath('.//div[@class="imgpt"]/div/span/text()')).strip().split(" · ")
            source = ' '.join(result.xpath('.//div[@class="imgpt"]//div[@class="lnkw"]//a/text()')).strip()
            results.append(
                {
                    'template': 'images.html',
                    'url': metadata['purl'],
                    'thumbnail_src': metadata['turl'],
                    'img_src': metadata['murl'],
                    'content': metadata.get('desc'),
                    'title': title,
                    'source': source,
                    'resolution': img_format[0],
                    'img_format': img_format[1] if len(img_format) >= 2 else None,
                }
            )
        return results