Integrate Bing Search Results into Automated Tasks with Power Automate

Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) is an online service that automates events (known as workflows) across the most common apps and services. When paired with CData Connect Server, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Bing Search results for visualizations, dashboards, and more. This article shows how to connect to Connect Server from Power Automate and integrate live Bing Search results into your workflows and tasks.

CData Connect Server provides a pure SQL, cloud-to-cloud interface for Bing Search, allowing you to easily integrate with live Bing Search results in Power Automate — without replicating the data. CData Connect Server looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Power Automate and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Bing Search, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Bing Search results.

Create a Virtual SQL Database for Bing Search Results

CData Connect Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.

1. Login to Connect Server and click Connections.
2. Select "Bing Search" from Available Data Sources.
3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Bing Search.

   To connect to Bing, set the ApiKey connection property. To obtain the API key, sign into Microsoft Cognitive Services and register for the Bing Search APIs.

   Two API keys are then generated; select either one.

   When querying tables, the SearchTerms parameter must be supplied in the WHERE clause.

4. Click Save Changes
5. Click Privileges -> Add and add the new user (or an existing user) with the appropriate permissions.

Connecting to CData Connect Server

To use Connect Server to integrate Bing Search results into your Power Automate tasks, you need a new SQL Server connection:

1. Log in to Power Automate
2. Click Data -> Connections -> New connection
3. Select SQL Server
4. In the connection wizard:
   
   
   • Set Authentication Type to "SQL Server Authentication"
   • Set SQL server name to the address of your Connect Server instance (myinstance.cdatacloud.net)
   • Set SQL database name to the name of the virtual Bing Search database you created earlier (like bingsearchdb)
   • Set the Username and Password and click Create

Integrating Bing Search Results into Power Automate Tasks

With the connection to Connect Server configured, you are ready to integrate live Bing Search results into your Power Automate tasks.

1. Log in to Power Automate
2. Click My flows -> New and choose to create the flow from blank or template
3. Add (or configure) a SQL Server action (like Get rows) and configure the action to connect to your Connect Server connection
4. Select a Table to work with (from the drop-down menu) and configure any advanced options (like filters, orders, etc)
5. Configure any actions to follow and test, then save the flow

SQL Access to Bing Search Results from Applications

Now you have a direct connection to live Bing Search results from Power Automate tasks. You can create more connections and workflows to drive business — all without replicating Bing Search results.

To get SQL data access to 200+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your applications, see the CData Connect Server.

Related Power Automate Articles

This article walks through using CData Connect Server with Power Automate (Online). Check out our other articles for more ways to work with Power Automate Desktop:

• Bing Search Results in Power Automate Desktop using CData Connect
• Bing Search Results in Power Automate Desktop via ODBC