Microsoft Cognitive Services News Search result URLs

Question

I am trying to migrate from Bing search API v2 to the new Cognitive Search API v5. I am able to connect and execute a news search. But in the results I cant seem to get any of the search result URLs (target sites) like "url" = "http://somewebsite/newsarticle" instead I get results like: "url": "http://www.bing.com/cr?IG=A5F6CFB521CE442EB8ADC2B9DAD61C9F&CID=0EC3F0C" ....

Microsoft documentation states I should be getting the real target url: See the line "url": "http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analy..." in the api documentation : https://dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/56b43f72cf5ff8098cef380a/operations/56b449fbcf5ff81038d15cdf

But when I open the test console on the same page it gives me the "http://www.bing.com/cr?IG=A5F6..." results.

What am I missing? Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

I figured out a workaround. Does not seem ideal, but forks for now. Wrote a method that parses the target URL from the Bing URL:

url = TryGetUrlFromBingUrl(BingResultUrl);



private string TryGetUrlFromBingUrl(string BingURL)
{
    var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(BingURL);
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(queryString["r"]))
    {
        return queryString["r"];
    } else
    {
        return BingURL;
    }
}