Now that we're losing access to Yahoo's index, we need to migrate existing copyvio tools to using a different API.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T116957 Plagiarism detection tools for text (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | Earwig | T131175 Help Copyvio Detector migrate to a new API |
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The authorization for the new API is done through a basic authorization header passed as part of the API request.
In PHP this would be implemented something like:
$accountKey = 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA';
$webSearchURL = 'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Web?$format=json&Query=';
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'request_fulluri' => true,
'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($accountKey . ":" . $accountKey)
)
));
$request = $webSearchURL . urlencode( '\'' . $_POST["searchText"] . '\'');
$response = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);
$jsonobj = json_decode($response);