Yahoo! Social Platform API Examples

Flash CS3 Example Applications

All of the code samples listed in this section are built in Flex 3 / Flash CS3 and provided free of charge under a BSD license. Simply find the task you're looking to accomplish, and grab the source code. The code is fully commented, so you'll be able to quickly learn what you need by following along.

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Simple Example - Displaying a Profile


Grabs the user's profile and displays it within a simple Flash CS3 applicaton.

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Advanced Example - Displaying a Profile with Friends


Gets the user's profile, then gathers a list of the user's friends using an ASTRA Carousel.

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Flex 3 Examples

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Viewer Profile / Social Directory


How to query Social Directory for the profile of the application viewer.

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Viewer Connections / Social Directory


This example demonstrates how to query Social Directory for the connections belonging to the application viewer.

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Viewer Presence


This example demonstrates how to query for the users status message.

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Viewer Updates


This example demonstrates how to query for a list of updates or actions by the user across Yahoo!.

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Viewer Application - Messaging and Share


This example demonstrates how to use the functionality of yml:share and yml:message from your Flash application.

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