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What's the difference between BOSS and the Yahoo Web Search API?

If I'm building a commercial search engine to display results from Yahoo! search, should I use BOSS or the Yahoo Web Search API? What's the difference? ...

OpenID error messages on python-openid

I'm using the python-openid library from Janrain at http://openidenabled.com/python-openid/ I adapted their Django example to another framework called Web2Py and it appears to be working, but with some annoying side-effects. The first problem is that sreg (Simple Registration Extension) and ax (Attribute Exchange) don't seem to work...

License for application using Yahoo data

I'm planning to develop an application that make use of data from Yahoo Finance. I'm concerned about copyright and licensing for the use of their data. Can anyone tell me if anyone's done something similar? ...

can Yahoo and Hotmail contacts api be used without leaving the site?

I might be missing something but I'm trying to implement a contacts retrieval mechanism akin to the one that is offered by Google for Yahoo and Hotmail. Both APIs seem to require the user to actually go to their sites to log in. The documentation is really convoluted for both. I was hoping someone has done this and can point me to a sim...

Yahoo Maps - stop Capturing YEvent

I'm currently using the Ajax api for Yahoo maps, and having some trouble with my smart windows. When I click on my custom marker to display my smart window, it's firing the pan event. I am calling both disablePanOnDoubleClick() and disableDragMap(), but the events are still firing. My code uses the following event to display the smart...

Yahoo Boss getJson

Anyone know how to do a JSON call to the Yahoo Boss API? Ideally the URL for the documentation on how to do this... Thanks, Mark ...

Yahoo Pipes: More complex RSS output?

I've been working with pipes for a while now, I am trying to output more than the basic structure of: Item title link description guid pubDate I want to publish more data in the RSS feed under different fields but cannot figure out if this is even possible. Any ideas? ...

How to setup a simple site search for a simple website?

I'm maintaining an existing website that wants a site search. I implemented the search using the YAHOO API. The problem is that the API is returning irrelevant results. For example, there is a sidebar with a list of places and if a user searches for "New York" the top results will be for pages that do not have "New York" in the main c...

sreg Yahoo problems

Hello May you please look at the issue: You may test Yahoo sreg at "https://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx" ID : "https://me.yahoo.com/" username: [email protected] password: paranoid Now the problem This code work with Google but not with Yahoo sreg, becase response.GetUntrustedExtension() alwase returns null values for properties for Ya...

fetch stock quotes from google finance, yahoo finance or the exchange itself

hello all, I am building a web based trading system where buy and sell signals would be generated by reading quotes from either Yahoo finance, google finance or the exchange(NSE of India) itself.My first preference would be to fetch data from this url: http://www.nseindia.com/content/equities/niftywatch.htm the page on the site uses ...

Yahoo Movies API Documentation

I'm trying to use the new unpublished Yahoo Movies API, but can't find any documentation, official or unofficial, about it. Does anyone know if any documentation exists for this? sample API call: http://new.api.movies.yahoo.com/v2/listMovies?title=Transformers EDIT: The API can no longer be accessed. I'm not sure what Yahoo's plans ar...

Regulate image sizes in Yahoo Pipes output

When combining multiple blog feeds into one using Yahoo Pipes, is it possible to control the image sizes in the output? I've seen the existing operators and filters offered, but there doesn't seem to be an option that e.g. rejects a post from my feed if its image is >500px wide, or even resizes that image to a given size. ...

Cufon text disappears when using Yahoo Babelfish

Has anyone experienced this? Cufon text disappears when using Yahoo Babelfish. Thanks! ...

Yahoo BBAuthen problem with authentication session?

Dear all, I'm trying to use yahoo BBA with my web application, but I'm always get fail with yahoo authentication problem. Here is my odd code: YahooLogin.aspx.cs protected void ImageButtonYahoo_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e) { // Create an instance of Yahoo.Authentication Yahoo.Authentication auth = new Authent...

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):...

How to write C# application to send messengers to a list yahoo messenger id.

I want to write an C# application to send messengers to a list yahoo messenger id. I known that Yahoo will block id which everybody "press" Report Spam. Anybody can tell me how much people "press" Report Spam on Yahoo Messenger that make my id be blocked. How much is the max yahoo messenger id number to send messenger at the same time. I...

How to get yahooID when I got a valid token?

Dear all, I use BBAuth (yahoo authentication) in my website, when user sign in with their yahoo account,when it is successful (redirect to end point url), I would like to get yahoo id account to insert into my db, I can't find any method or property to get it. Please tell me how to get yahoo id when they are successful login my system....

Inserting custom tab and Iframe into yahoo mail

I'm working on inserting a tab into Yahoo mail that would display an iframe with meebo in it. This tab will act the same as the "Home" and "Inbox" tabs. These tabs are defined as tables in the "MainTabControl" div. Each tab controls the absolute position of a div which contains the content for that tab. I have added a tab by inserting a...

Wincap Msn messenger, yahoo messenger, google talk

Does someone know how to use Wincap(or other library) to see messages sent from and to Msn messenger, yahoo messenger, google talk? Thanks ...

Java email and yahoo

I use my email server to send email. I can send my emails to gmail successfully(I can find my emails in my gmail spam folder) but when I wand to send yahoo mail my emails is not recieved by yahoomail I check spam folder. but can not find it. ...