In my Bing custom search engine, I have an empty active list, and I have a few sites on my blocked list. I want to see ALL web results minus my blocked list, but I'm getting zero results this way. Is there a way I can do this?
EDIT: RESOLVED. SEE CODE BELOW Note: I used the Bing Web Search API in favor of the custom search to achieve me desired results.
# code solution, I was able to get my desired results and
# exclude a large number of websites with this method
# I can confirm that at least 20 stacked exclusions are working with no issues.
def bing_search(key,url,term):
headers = {"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key" : subscription_key}
params = {"q": bterm, "textDecorations":True, "textFormat":"HTML"}
response = requests.get(search_url, headers=headers, params=params)
response.raise_for_status()
search_results = response.json()
results = bing_search(subscription_key, search_url, (str(each) +
"-site:facebook.com "
"-site:yellowpages.com "
"-site:yelp.com "
"-site:local.yahoo.com "
"-site:manta.com "
"-site:searchonamerica.com "
"-site:wellness.com "
"-site:countyoffice.org "
"-site:buzzfile.com "
"-site:superpages.com "
"-site:dandb.com "
"-site:finduslocal.com "
"-site:chamberofcommerce.com "
"-site:whitepages.com "
"-site:businessfinder.nola.com "
"-site:yellowbook.com "
"-site:bizapedia.com "
"-site:bbb.org "
"-site:mapquest.com "
"-site:infofree.com "))
I hope that the custom search engine will allow this functionality in the future.
