yahoo-boss-api

What are the best blogs or guides to learning the BOSS API?

What are the best blogs or guides to learning the BOSS API? (Which is used for integrating with Yahoo's search engine?) ...

Yahoo BOSS Python Library, ExpatError

I tried to install the Yahoo BOSS mashup framework, but am having trouble running the examples provided. Examples 1, 2, 5, and 6 work, but 3 & 4 give Expat errors. Here is the output from ex3.py: gpython examples/ex3.py examples/ex3.py:33: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Traceback (most recent call last):...

indexing services for websites: lucene, and other options

Hey guys Just looking for some search and indexing services for our sites, and wondered if you guys could recommend anything? our requirements: The service can either index via http, or direct access to our database. It's gotta be just really simple to use, and set up provide a simple API so we can get the results programmatically an...

Python 2.6 DB error

I'm trying to get the Yahoo! BOSS package working, but when I try to run the example file I get the following error: $ python examples/ex5.py File "examples/ex5.py", line 28 tb = db.group(by=["yn$title"], key="rank", reducer=lambda d1,d2: d1+d2, as="total", table=tb, norm=text.norm) ...

Yahoo! BOSS: Include duplicate results

I can easily get the results I want from Yahoo! BOSS. However, for the particular data I'm trying to get, it's important that "duplicate" results be included. I know Yahoo! has them, since when I search for the query manually, it offers me a link to see these similar results. Is there any way to request these deeper results with the Ya...

Yahoo BOSS API Python Library Error

Hi all, i've just downloaded the Yahoo BOSS Mashup framework from http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/mashup.html, and I have a problem: I'm receiving the following error for all examples. For instance, for example.ex3.py: File "ex3.py", line 33 tb = db.group(by=["ynews$title"], key="dg$diggs", reducer=lambda d1, d2: d1 + d2, a...