An simple Yahoo API example for new API developers

Hi all,

I have seen that some developers are facing problems in developing with the Yahoo API and I have written a simple tutorial to illustrate. My example uses PHP with serialised output (which is the easiest to understand and implement) along with the Inbound Links API.

Please feel free to visit my Yahoo API tutorial.

Hope it helps

 

Thank you for the link. Gave me a better idea on what these Yahoo APIs are, thanks!

 

Is this the only way to find inbound links for a webpage?

 

Do you mean by Yahoo API? Then yes, this is the only way.

The other external alternatives are to scrap the results from the respective search engine pages where it shows the total amount of returned results for the link: operator.

 

Well if I use the link:website command on google, it doesn't display all the incoming links. It usually displays pages from within the same website.

 

Yes, Google does not display all the inbound links.. only MSN and yahoo display all those results..

 

thamks great tutorial

 

Cool post, I didn't know the API could do things like that. I always assumed it was just for setting up ads for some reason.

 

Thanks for that tutorial! Very well written.

 

Cool post, I didn't know the API could do things like that. I always assumed it was just for setting up ads for some reason too.

 

Hey..this is such a old thread..any ways thanks for the link! You get a green from me.

 

ah, good - I know this is old but thanks for it. Been trying to sort out how to nab a specific element from the array, and yahoo's docs aren't too helpful.

 

Thanks for tutorial...

 

i never took Yahoo API seriously..
BTE awesome tutorial..

 

I have tried to reach the Yahoo site to get an API for two days, but the link does not work.

HR

 

You may want to post your codes here so that we can tale a look

 

Do you still need help after 436 days? WoW. I don't hope you have been sitting up all night(s) waiting for an answer

 

I checked it out, very nice

 

Thanks .. good tut.

 

I use such code to learn if my script reached limit of searches
$c - is unserialized content returned from yahoo by api request

if(preg_match("#<Message>limit[^<]+exceeded</Message>#is", $c)) {
    echo 'Limit exceeded, need to change IP :-)';
}

PHP: