Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing Visual search API

The Visual search API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for visual search.

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Operations 1

POST /v7.0/images/visualsearch Visual search #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/overview
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APIReference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/reference/endpoints

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-bing/refs/heads/main/openapi/microsoft-bing-visual-search-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

microsoft-bing-visual-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Bing Search Visual Search API
  description: Minimal OpenAPI definition for the Bing Search APIs (Web, Image, News, Video, Entity, Visual, Custom, Spell Check, Autosuggest).
  version: v7.0
  x-generated-from: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/overview
  x-generated-by: claude-crawl-2026-05-08
servers:
- url: https://api.bing.microsoft.com
  description: Bing Search API host
security:
- subscriptionKey: []
tags:
- name: Visual search
paths:
  /v7.0/images/visualsearch:
    post:
      tags:
      - Visual search
      summary: Visual search
      operationId: visualSearch
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          multipart/form-data:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                image:
                  type: string
                  format: binary
                knowledgeRequest:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GenericObject'
components:
  schemas:
    GenericObject:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
  securitySchemes:
    subscriptionKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key