Hello,

I'm developing a PHP application that counts the number of reviews on Yahoo Local. However, thus far i'm limited to seeing only 3 reviews without clicking the "load more" button. Is there a way to retrieve/show all reviews at once without using that button?

Thanks

It seems Yahoo local search API does not work outside USA.

Hey All -

I'm stuck on an issue and hoping you all might be able to help me out or give me some ideas. The basic idea behind my code is to have a form that collects some info from the user, on submit pass that info on to the yahoo local search api, and then parse and display the results on the page. Shouldn't be difficult and I have it almost working...

Here is the workflow:

1. User enters info in the web page form
2. User selects Submit button and onsubmit a callApi() function is called.
3. The callApi() function uses the form data to create and then send an xmlhttprequest object to the yahoo api
4. When the xmlhttprequest object readyState == 4 && status == 200 then call the handlerequest function.
5. The handlerequest function would parse the results, create and populate a Div element in the page body.

All of the above steps work when I step through the code using firebug, the page even populates on step 5 but when after step five when the focus returns to the onsubmit function call the page clears!?!? I don't know if its something when how the page is being loaded or what.

If I change the original call to an onclick button so that if a user selects the onclick button the callApi() function is called, everything works great and the results are displayed and only clear when the button is selected again.

Has anyone encountered this issue?? I didn't post the code but I can if need be....

Thanks in advance,

fp

So I just started working with the API, setup my App ID, and then ran a search for a location.

Let's just say I did a search for "Italian Food", I get several returns for places that have Italian Food near my current location, but then my App crashes and I get this readout in XCodes console:

2011-12-28 23:24:49.237 myAPP[26268:707] Should've been invalidated

If anyone else has experienced this please help me out. I have no clue why I am getting this message. I even tried to search through the API files to find an NSLog that would push this message, just as a clue as to where things are going wrong, but it is no where to be found.

I also noticed that I can change my App ID to whatever I want -- I still get results returned - but still the crash. Should I assume that my App ID is not right? This would not make sense because I just got it from Yahoo! It should be fine.

Please help.

how can i identify any particular dealer on Yahoo local??? I figured out that listing_id is unique... but from where can i get this listing_id??
I have used oAuth for the same....
Please respond ASAP...
Thanks in advane!!!

Go with the newer service.  With the newer service I have not run into this issue.

How can resolve it ?

I read that Yahoo Local APIs are requested 5000 requests per day and for non-commercial use only. So what is the scenario to use this within my iPhone app, can I not use it at all? I am willing to legally pay if I ever cross 5000 requests :-) but nevertheless I do not want to land up getting into a limbo if that limit is hit. What are my options?
Thx
Vishal

I have not found an answer to this issue.

I have switched to using their newer service.  I wonder if the old one has been deprecated.

I only use the service every few months, but am also currently receiving that error.

Hi,
i tried caldav for yahoo calendar but din't get success.Please suggest me way to do this

I have tried responding to the posts in this area with this same error using 3 major browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox). Each attempt ends with the forum simply re-displaying the post with the editor window. I'm hoping that this original post will make it into the forum area.

Because I'm unable to reply to others posts, I'm going to post a link (which I hope the forum will accept) to my discussion on this top.

http://techdruid.com/2011/09/20/yahoo-maps-service-backend-fetch-errror-403/

I know I'm not the only one suddenly encountering this error. Hopefully we can get a solution posted to the problem. Otherwise, I will continue to use the google geo-coding service as I am now doing.

do you find any answer to this question?

in the url change
1. change the zip {1000} with any real zip
2. change appid={YahooDemo} to appid=YahooDemo

hi , did you find answer , please let me know. i have same question
my email is sanjay_iteng@yahoo.co.in

Hi there,
I'm developing a website that allows people to register their businesses using my web application and I noticed that yahoo local listing allows you to fetch business information via their Yahoo API (http://developer.yahoo.com/local/) . But I was thinking if there's a way to let users register their business via my web application using their Yahoo API.
I know Yahoo allows you to register your business through this site: http://listings.local.yahoo.com/comp.php. But I wanted users to go to my website and fill up fields then all their info would go to Yahoo's Database or Local Listing through the use of their API.
How would I do that kind of functionality?

Please help me. Thanks in advance and have a Great Day!

I'm trying to play a demo by IBM which uses the Yahoo search api using the url http://local.yahooapis.com/LocalSearchServ...&results=10

Keep getting totalResultsAvailable="0" totalResultsReturned="0" firstResultPosition="1"

Isn't the api working anymore (today is Tuesday not Sunday ;-)

Trying to figure out how to answer this one.

I have the answer, but I need to find a way to respond without giving away our IP. For now all I can say is that:

What local.yahoo.com reads for default sorting 'relevance' and what YDN reads for the same parameters may not be the same. Hence, the differences.

I will also try to figure out a way for you to get the same results, but no guarantees. (It may require changes at YDN and internal Local API server code.)

Cem

Search results on Yahoo Local website are by default sorted by 'Top Results' which are different from result set sorted by 'Distance' and 'Highest Rated'. Yahoo Local API offers 'sort' parameter, but only supports 'relevance', 'distance' , 'rating' and 'title'. I have tried all the four sort options supported by the API but not able to get the same result set. Is there a way to get the search API results which match the Yahoo local website search results sorted by 'Top Results'?

i have the same problem :-(

greetings from germany

how can I retrieve data by look up business by putting phonenumber? I dont see anything on query section. Thank you.

Local BE Team (biz listings) identified the problem. It only occurs on Sundays :) It'll be fixed this week.

Yahoo Local BE team (biz listings) identified the problem. This only happens on Sundays. :) It'll be fixed this week.

Thanks for the feedback.

I can see the problem from our internal server logs. Our successful replies to queries drops during the day -when the traffic picks up- on Sunday for the last two weeks.
It's not a robot or scraping job, as far as I can tell. Will be digging deeper this week.

Hopefully, we won't see it next Sunday.

Cem