I like to think that most of the stuff I blog about on here is in some way useful but sometimes I just want to put something out there that i think is simply damn cool, this is one of the latter cases.
Today I stumbled upon Joe Pruitt’s PoshBing – a Powershell library for Microsoft’s new Bing search engine. Its a wrapper around the Bing API and enables you to call the Bing search engine and consume the results inside the Powershell pipeline. A picture speaks a thousand words so here are some example of what you can do with it:
Spellchecking
Translations
Basic web search
News articles
Not sure how useful it is but its all very cool stuff I’m sure you’ll agree (if you’re a fan of Powershell)! Download the Powershell script file containing this good stuff from http://poshbing.codeplex.com/ and happy querying!
As an aside, Joe has also built a Twitter wrapper around his Powershell Bing wrapper which means you can now use Twitter to use Powershell to query Bing; simply head for @askbing and ask it whatever you want. Probably not all that useful but nonetheless very very cool.
-Jamie
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