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  • Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:45 AM
     
     
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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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    • Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:51 AM
       
       
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      Hello,

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

           
        • Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:48 AM
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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 by AlessCOwner Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:15 AM
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