Search Millions of Local Businesses with Bing Local Business Search API (Public Preview)

Today, we are announcing http://aka.ms/localbusinessapi in public preview as our latest addition to our existing portfolio of https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fazure.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fservices%2Fcognitive-services%2Fdirectory%2Fsearch%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-ersta%40microsoft.com%7C85dfa8e1c906499b801008d64034efd4%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636766993448918366&sdata=s8mcy14hgi5Wg5eWHKoaLFRIIuJZ3E8K2GwCvi5GJeQ%3D&reserved=0 on the https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fazure.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fservices%2Fcognitive-services%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-ersta%40microsoft.com%7C85dfa8e1c906499b801008d64034efd4%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636766993448928365&sdata=Iv2%2FeEmSDC%2FoJeAp0vLcbSpAdXaroerlMYL6tEOqEeU%3D&reserved=0 platform. Bing Local Business Search API helps users search for local businesses in a given area of interest. This service enables your users to easily find local business information from Bing’s industry-leading index within your applications and websites. By using this service, your user is able to search for information on millions of local businesses from hundreds of categories including Food & Drink, Professionals & Services, Retail, Healthcare, and more. Below is an example JSON response with each result item containing name, full address, phone number, website, business category, and latitude/longitude.

 

You can learn about how to call the API and supported scenarios in our https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fazure%2Fcognitive-services%2Fbing-local-business-search%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cv-ersta%40microsoft.com%7C85dfa8e1c906499b801008d64034efd4%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636766993448928365&sdata=BrkVoJUc860FoYJsLJ6R9XDjdFCS8Nyl86HxnnUl%2BT4%3D&reserved=0.

 

Read more about it in the https://blogs.bing.com/Developers-Blog/2018-11/bing-api-announcement-local-business-search-public-preview.