What is the Autosuggest API?

The Autosuggest API is a type-ahead feature that provides suggestions for your query based on the intent of your user. This helps your website visitors filter search results, and improve their experience with your site.

It can be used for several things, including autocomplete for addresses and texts. In addition, it can provide you with statistics from autosuggest queries.

You can send partial search queries to Bing with the help of this API. Then, it will suggest businesses, points of interest, and geographic locations. Using this feature can lead to faster completion of your query.

When you call the Autosuggest API, you can limit the suggestions to one country. Additionally, the suggestions can be returned in the form of a list or chain of suggested entities. For example, you can receive a list of suggested addresses in California, Nevada, and Washington, or a list of suggested places of interest in Arizona.

For text suggestions, you can use the Autosuggest API to return suggested text, including recipe catalogs. It also works with attribute suggestions, which allow users to filter search results.

The Bing Autosuggest API also includes a feature called People Autosuggest, which produces a brief information about people when you search. This is a very helpful feature.

The Autosuggest API can be accessed through the following endpoints. Note that these endpoints require bearer headers. If you're using this endpoint for production, be sure to set the Geolocation header to the correct location.