feed: keyword not working?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:45 AMFCorella

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Hi,

The feed: keyword does not seem to be working. It works on live.com, but it does not seem to work on the live search api. The following queries give no results:
    feed:nba
    feed: nba
    nba feed:
I searched this forum and saw that the keyword feed was not working on Feb 25 but was fixed on Feb 28. Perhaps the same problem has reappeared?

Thanks in advance!

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Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:48 AMAlessCMSFT, Owner

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Sorry for the trouble guys.

You have already discovered that feeds: does no longer work for the API - we had to do this because of a serious unwelcome side effect.

To achieve the same result as using feeds: before, you need to use a strongly typed parameter in the request instead of a query keyword.

The new parameter is a new value for the FileType attribute that can be set to "feed". This would be adding
```
Web.Filetype=feeds 
```
for the XML and JSON interface

and this in SOAP (C#)
```
       SearchRequest request = new SearchRequest();

        // Common request fields (required)
        request.AppId = AppId;
        request.Query = "my query";
        request.Sources = new SourceType[] { SourceType.Web };


        // Web-specific request fields (optional)
        request.Web = new WebRequest();
        request.Web.FileType = "feeds";
```
The MSDN documentation will be updated in a few days.

HTH

--Alessandro
- Marked As Answer byAlessCMSFT, OwnerSaturday, May 16, 2009 2:15 AM

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:51 AMme11

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Hello,

I can confirm that the feed keyword is not working.
Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:36 AMBeatrice Oltean

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A better solution is offered to restrict the web results to feeds. You need to set WebRequest.FileType="feed".

Example with XML interface: http://api.search.live.net/xml.aspx?query=nba&sources=web&appid=<your AppID>&web.filetype=feed
- Proposed As Answer byBeatrice Oltean Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:40 AM
Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:48 AMAlessCMSFT, Owner

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Sorry for the trouble guys.

You have already discovered that feeds: does no longer work for the API - we had to do this because of a serious unwelcome side effect.

To achieve the same result as using feeds: before, you need to use a strongly typed parameter in the request instead of a query keyword.

The new parameter is a new value for the FileType attribute that can be set to "feed". This would be adding
```
Web.Filetype=feeds 
```
for the XML and JSON interface

and this in SOAP (C#)
```
       SearchRequest request = new SearchRequest();

        // Common request fields (required)
        request.AppId = AppId;
        request.Query = "my query";
        request.Sources = new SourceType[] { SourceType.Web };


        // Web-specific request fields (optional)
        request.Web = new WebRequest();
        request.Web.FileType = "feeds";
```
The MSDN documentation will be updated in a few days.

HTH

--Alessandro
- Marked As Answer byAlessCMSFT, OwnerSaturday, May 16, 2009 2:15 AM