How to call https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Services/My/Datasets to get a ResourceBalance

Question

I ran into a problem accessing Microsoft Translator Services, which would restrict the remaining characters.

I made a token accessing the part, only to get information about user datasets by calling

https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Services/My/Datasets service.

I referred to this link

Answer 1

There are two ways to log in to balance resources.

• using OAuth (authentication token required)
• using Basic (account key required)

Basic Authorization Process

import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; public class MSTranslaterUserInforService { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String bingUrl = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Services/My/Datasets?$format=json"; String accountKey = "place your account_key here"; byte[] accountKeyBytes = Base64 .encodeBase64((accountKey + ":" + accountKey).getBytes()); String accountKeyEnc = new String(accountKeyBytes); URL urlb = new URL(bingUrl); URLConnection urlConnection = urlb.openConnection(); urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + accountKeyEnc); String line; BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( urlConnection.getInputStream())); line = reader.readLine(); System.out.println(line); } } 

Answer 2

Since no language is specified, this covers the C # side.

This includes quick & dirty (current as of 2013-12-05) XML parsing to extract the amount of Microsoft Translator resources.

 using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Net; using System.Xml; using System.IO; namespace translation_testing { class Class1 { public static int GetUsage() { string uri = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Services/My/Datasets"; string general_accountkey = "your account key"; string accountkeyraw = general_accountkey + ":" + general_accountkey; byte[] accountkeybytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(accountkeyraw); string accountkeystring = Convert.ToBase64String(accountkeybytes); HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri); httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + accountkeystring); WebResponse response = null; try { response = httpWebRequest.GetResponse(); using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream()) { StringBuilder sbresponse = new StringBuilder(); int len = 1; while (stream.CanRead && len > 0) { byte[] chunk = new byte[4096]; len = stream.Read(chunk, 0, 4096); sbresponse.Append(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(chunk, 0, len)); } return translator_resource_count(sbresponse.ToString()); } } catch { throw; } finally { if (response != null) { response.Close(); response = null; } } } private static int translator_resource_count(string input) { bool isentry = false; bool iscontent = false; bool istitle = false; bool isbalance = false; string title = null; string balance = null; using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(input))) { while (reader.Read()) { if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text) { if (istitle) title = reader.Value; if (isbalance) balance = reader.Value; } else if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element) { if (reader.Name == "entry") isentry = true; if (isentry && reader.Name == "content") iscontent = true; if (isentry && !iscontent && reader.Name == "title") istitle = true; if (isentry && iscontent && title == "Microsoft Translator" && reader.Name == "d:ResourceBalance") isbalance = true; } else if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.EndElement) { if (reader.Name == "entry") isentry = false; if (isentry && reader.Name == "content") iscontent = false; if (isentry && !iscontent && reader.Name == "title") istitle = false; if (isentry && iscontent && title == "Microsoft Translator" && reader.Name == "d:ResourceBalance") isbalance = false; } } } return int.Parse(balance); } } }