Bing search api limit to certain sites

Question

Can I define Bing search api only return result from subdomains from a site? For example, www.domain.com/dir/. This is something similar to what Google custom search does. But Google CSE has a hard limit on 10k/day. Is there an alternative search api available for this purpose?

You ask for a result from a subdomain, but the example you give is of a wildcard subdomain and a sub directory. Can you clarify which one you want? — Dijkgraaf, May 04 '15 at 20:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '17 at 19:08

madmuffin is correct, but I'm expanding on his answer to show how multiple sites can be searched. You can use the advanced search operator "site:" as part of your query "q" param.

Single Site Example

"heart disease" site:www.example.com

Multiple Site Example

"heart disease" (site:www.example1.com OR site:www.example2.com)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '15 at 13:13

You can simply put this into the query field, like this:

site:domain.com/dir/ whatIAmLookingFor

The query field can contain anything the Bing Engine supports, despite the keyword being site, it apparently supports also URLs

You can read the Bing Search API docs here.

Bing search api limit to certain sites

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