How to scrape Bing Events information easily using SerpApi

Introduction

Microsoft Bing search, now powered with OpenAI's advanced AI models, is a great place to search information about any type of event. You can search about music festivals, events related to food, sports, dance, comedy, arts, fairs, games, etc.

Using SerpApi, we can easily scrape for event information, such as the title of the event, type of event, location, date, time, price and relevant links.

Example search results for general event query "events in new york city".

Example search results for a more specific event query "rock concerts in austin", which provides more information about the events when compared to general search queries.

Let's walk through how we can use SerpApi to scrape all this valuable information with only a few simple steps:

Setting Up a SerpApi Account

First, we need to create a SerpApi account. SerpApi has a Free tier that offers up to 100 searches per month.
Let's head to the sign-up page to create an account. Provide a valid email and a valid phone number in order to access your account's dashboard.

SerpApi Signup/Signin page where you can create an account by providing an unique email address and an unique phone number.

Exploring Bing Search event results using SerpApi Playground

Now that we have an account, we can sign in and use SerpApi's Playground technology to explore Bing search results, and see all the cool information we can get about events. Check out the events_results hash to see all information scraped from Bing's search result:

Using SerpApi's Playground is a great way to explore all different Search APIs offered by SerpApi, including Bing Search that is featured on this article.

Integrating SerpApi with your application

Exploring SerpApi's vast diversity of Search APIs using Playground is a lot of fun, but to get the most out of SerpApi's services it's best to use the results from Search Engines directly in your application programmatically.

In order to send requests to SerpApi, we will need your unique secret API key that can be copied right from your dashboard:

Use your unique secret API key in your application to send requests to SerpApi programmatically.

Your API key is unique to you and you should never share it anywhere to avoid other people using your account, but in case you accidentally expose your API key, you can easily generate a new one from the Manage API key page (if you generate a new API key, don't forget to update your application code with the newly generated API key).

Check out the documentation for SerpApi libraries based on the programming language you use:

To demonstrate how simple it is to use SerpApi in your code, here's all you'd need to do to retrieve Bing Events results from your application using the Ruby language, as you can also see in SerpApi's Bing Events documentation page:

require 'google_search_results' 

params = {
  engine: "bing",
  q: "nyc rock concerts",
  api_key: "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
}

search = GoogleSearch.new(params)
events_results = search.get_hash[:events_results]

That's all there is to it. Integrating SerpApi is extremely simple and straightforward. You can explore how to use all other Search Engine APIs offered by SerpApi at our documentation page, and play around with each of them using SerpApi's Playground feature.

Have fun! 😃