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POST /v1/videos · engine=bing

Bing Video Search API

Bing's video results, YouTube and beyond, with channel, duration, typed publish date and thumbnail for each video. A replacement for the retired Bing Video Search API.

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1 credit per page of results 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Bing Video Search API does

Bing is Microsoft's web index. Microsoft retired its official Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025; SerpKite reads Bing's public results page instead. Use it to keep a Bing-backed integration running after the retirement, or to compare Microsoft's index with Google's.

/v1/videos with engine: "bing" returns Bing's video results: title, link, domain, source, channel, duration, the date as shown and published_at in ISO 8601, and an image_url thumbnail. A page usually holds about 30 videos. If you are migrating from Bing Video Search v7, value[].contentUrl maps to link, publisher to source and thumbnailUrl to image_url.

What you get

results[] array
Videos: position, title, link, domain, source (e.g. YouTube), channel, duration, date / published_at, snippet and image_url.
meta object
request_id, credits_used, cached, latency_ms, parse_quality, engine (the provider that answered) and route (each provider attempt with outcome and ms).

Request

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/videos \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"espresso tutorial","engine":"bing"}'

Response (live response, trimmed)

200 OK · Bing videos · live response, trimmed 
{
  "request": {
    "country": "us",
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "bing",
    "language": "en",
    "num": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "channel": "Joshua Weissman",
      "date": "Oct 24, 2019",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "7:36",
      "image_url": "https://th.bing.com/th/id/OVP.tCQwAuzqN1qPeOugBQsp3gHgFo?w=354&h=199&c=7&rs=1&qlt=70&o=7&pid=2.1&rm=3",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQu12vMQZM",
      "position": 1,
      "published_at": "2019-10-24",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "The Espresso Guide For Beginners"
    },
    {
      "channel": "Lance Hedrick",
      "date": "2 months ago",
      "domain": "youtube.com",
      "duration": "27:12",
      "image_url": "https://th.bing.com/th/id/OVP.pRyHpPsTKbB6rZtX84vImgEsDh?w=354&h=199&c=7&rs=1&qlt=70&o=7&pid=2.1&rm=3",
      "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEt8q9QWdsE",
      "position": 2,
      "published_at": "2026-08-24",
      "source": "YouTube",
      "title": "Espresso in Under 30 Min: Everything You Need to Know"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "engine": "bing",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "bing",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 914
      }
    ],
    "latency_ms": 930,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

One key, many engines

Bing through SerpKite

  • Same key, same envelope and the same SDK call as Google: only engine changes.
  • meta.engine names the provider that answered and meta.route lists every attempt. A result is never relabelled.
  • engine: "auto" keeps Google first and falls back to Bing and the other engines only when Google fails. How fallback works
  • Failed, blocked and empty attempts are free; you pay only for the provider that answered.

Everything Bing serves on SerpKite

See all engines on the multi-engine search page or in the providers reference.

engine=auto answered by Bing (illustrative)

meta.route 
{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "videos",
    "engine": "auto",
    "q": "espresso tutorial"
  },
  "meta": {
    "engine": "bing",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "google",
        "outcome": "blocked",
        "ms": 2140
      },
      {
        "provider": "bing",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 640
      }
    ]
  }
}

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/videos accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Bing Video Search API parameters
Name Type Default Description
q required string – The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
engine string | string[] google "bing" for this page. "auto" tries Google first and falls back to other engines; a list such as ["google", "bing"] limits the route to those engines.
country string us Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…). Defaults to the country a location ends in.
language string en Interface language, as a language code with an optional region (en, de, pt-BR, zh-TW…).
page integer 1 Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
format string json Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
fields string – Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
max_age integer – Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the /v1/videos reference. Queue up to 100 requests at half price with POST /v1/batches.

Use cases

What people build with the Bing Video Search API

01

Replace the retired Bing API

Point code that called Bing Web Search v7 at /v1/search with engine=bing and keep getting Bing's results.

02

Bing visibility checks

See where a domain shows up on Bing for a keyword, next to its Google position.

03

Grounding without Azure

Give an agent Bing web results as JSON or Markdown without an Azure AI Agents setup.

Pricing

Bing Video Search API pricing

Cost per call

1 credit

per page of results

  • From $0.60 per 1,000 calls at volume.
  • Credits never expire. No subscription.
  • Failed, empty and blocked calls are refunded.
  • 2,500 free credits = 2,500 calls, then 1,000 credits a month.

For reference: Serper lists Google searches at $1.00 per 1k on its entry tier and $0.30 at its best tier, and its credits expire after 6 months. SerpKite credits cost $1.00 to $0.60 per 1k.

See all pricing
Bing Video Search API cost per pack
Pack Price Per 1k credits Per 1k calls Calls per pack
Starter $10 $1.00 $1.00 10,000
Growth $50 $0.80 $0.80 62,500
Pro $300 $0.60 $0.60 500,000

FAQ

Bing Video Search API: common questions

Keep exploring

Related APIs and integrations

Bing Image Search API Bing images: full-size URL, thumbnail, size and source page. Bing Search API Bing web results as JSON, after the official API's retirement. Bing News Search API Bing News articles with source, snippet, typed date and image. Google Videos API YouTube and web videos with channel, duration and date.

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