Yahoo! Answers: Get Questions By User

getByUser lists questions from a specific user ID. User IDs are returned by getByCategory, getQuestion, or questionSearch, and may also be found on the Answers site by mousing over any user nickname and observing the value of the show parameter.

Request URL: GET

http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser

GET Request parameters

See information on constructing REST queries

Parameter	Value	Description
user_id	string (required)	User ID: unique per user. See notes above on how to find it.
appid	string (required)	The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
type	string: omit for default "all"	Question status. Set to "all", "resolved", "open", or "undecided".
filter	string: omit for default "question".	Type of result set: question: Questions asked by the user. answer: Questions answered by the user. best_answer: Questions where the user's answer was chosen as best answer. Only useful where type=resolved.
sort	string: omit for default "date_desc".	Result set sort field and order: date_desc: By date, descending from most recent, date_asc: By date, ascending from oldest. ans_count_desc: By answer count, descenting from highest. ans_count_asc: By answer count, ascending from lowest.
start	integer: default 0	Starting question to list, used to display further results.
results	integer : default 10, max 50	Number of questions to be returned.
output	string: omit for default "xml"	Defines the output for the call. Accepted values are "xml", "json", "php", and "rss".
callback	string: default ""	If set, wraps the JSON object in call to the selected function. Only makes sense if output selected is JSON.

Sample Request Url: http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo&user_id=AA10001397

Response fields

The schema document for this service response is located at http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/QuestionResponse.xsd

Field	Description
ResultSet	Contains all of the questions listed.
Question	Contain an individual question's data. Has attributes: id: The unique question id type: The state of the question.
Subject	The subject of the question
Content	The full question
Date	Pre-formatted date when the question was submitted
Timestamp	Unix timestamp for when the question was submitted
Link	Link to the question
Category	The Category that the question is listed under. Has attribute: id: The unique category id
UserId	The unique User id
UserNick	The nickname of the user
UserPhotoURL	User photo URL.
NumAnswers	The number of answers to the question
NumComments	The number of comments on the question
ChosenAnswer	The answer chosen by the user as the best
ChosenAnswererId	The user id of the chosen answerer
ChosenAnswererNick	The nickname of the chosen answerer
ChosenAnswererTimestamp	The time the answer was submitted
ChosenAnswererAwardTimestamp	The time the answer was given an award

Sample response

The following is a sample response for the above query:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?> <ResultSet xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:yahoo:answers" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:answers http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/QuestionResponse.xsd"> <Question id="1005120800412" type="Answered"> <Subject>Why is there no TITLE tag in the header of answers.yahoo.com?</Subject> <Content>Come on, you guys. It's not valid HTML if there's no title. :) Correction: there's no TITLE tag in any of the edit screens, including the one I'm using to add these details. Sorry, my bad.</Content> <Date>2005-12-08 08:22:33</Date> <Timestamp>1134058953</Timestamp> <Link>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1005120800412</Link> <Category id="396545663">Programming &amp; Design</Category> <UserId>AA10001397</UserId> <UserNick>Kent Brewster</UserNick> <UserPhotoURL>http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/mingle/42004d2dz2fb914a9/profile/__tn_/cff9.jpg?mggKi2EBWSnDxloU</UserPhotoURL> <NumAnswers>2</NumAnswers> <NumComments>0</NumComments> <ChosenAnswer>I found the &lt;title&gt; element in the &lt;body&gt; section. Strange, but I&#39;m really happy to see that Yahoo is making the effort to get away from table-based layouts. Oh and another thing. There are two &lt;h1&gt; elements, there should only be one per page.</ChosenAnswer> <ChosenAnswererId>AA10001432</ChosenAnswererId> <ChosenAnswererNick>awcole72</ChosenAnswererNick> <ChosenAnswerTimestamp></ChosenAnswerTimestamp> <ChosenAnswerAwardTimestamp>1135873920</ChosenAnswerAwardTimestamp> </Question> </ResultSet>

Rate Limits

Yahoo! Web Search Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per IP per day per API. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Yahoo! Answers Web Search services return the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.