I hate it too! have to log out twice!! stop it already Yahoo. I am ready to jump ship on yahoo and go google!!

Please contact the BOSS/Geo team here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/

I am so Damn tired...I do not want a "Yahoo Profile" but I cannot sign out of my email account for every time I have tried for two weeks it kicks to the promo page...Even though I keep saying "no thanks" you keep doing it....leave my life alone Yahoo!@!!!!!

Hello,

When calling the PlaceFinder API with default "locale" param (i.e. omitted or set to "en_US") for some places in Israel, their "city" and "county" fields are returned with incorrect Arabic names instead of their correct Hebrew names, for example:

70 31.468204 34.64821 31.468204 34.64821 400 31.468204,34.648132 31.468204,34.648132 85365 Nir Akiva Israel 85365 Nir Akiva Bi'er AS-Sabe Janub Israel IL 85365 20069264 11

Rakesh,

Sorry this was missed. Please contact the Geo/BOSS team directly at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/

It sounds like you have a virus. Try this: http://blog.teesupport.com/how-to-remove-httpdeveloper-yahoo-comyqlconsole-redirect-yql-console-virus-manual-removal/

how do i get rid of this stupid YQL thing?????? It wont let me do anything!!!!

When i try to copy file from local to HDFS folder,it gives me error that you can not copy because folder already exist. I want to copy file from local to already created HDFS folder. how to do it?

how to get yahoo user id using yahoo guid in android app ?when we tray to get all contacts of particular user

Still Waiting for replay.

I am getting same latitude/longitude for different address.

1. 4000 DOLOMIT DRIVE,THE VILLAGE,ORLANDO, FL 32839
2. 2234 ROSE AVENUE,ORLANDO, FL 32839
3. 5618 PENDELTON DRIVE,SOUTH POINTE SU,ORLANDO, FL 32839
4. 4855 S. OBT,APT. 143,ORLANDO, FL 32839
5. 1863 AMERICAN BLVD 36L,ORLANDO, FL 32839
6. 5425 S.O.B.T 151,ORLANDO, FL 32839

All above address return same latitude/longitude from YQL

I have run below query at http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/Query = select * from geo.placefinder where text="ABOVE ADDRESSES"

In all above cases, I got the response
28.492615 -81.409657 28.490879 -81.409821

Please help.

Thanks Keith. I'm coming back to this now, I'm sure your snippet will come in handy.

The entire link is gone now. It's been a while :)

You can still find it on Github though: https://github.com/yahoo/yos-social-php

Please ask your question in the BOSS group. Thanks!

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/

How do I get yahoo and you tube back to english so I can add things to my favorites

Keith,

The BOSS team does not participate in the YDN forums. I recommend you reach out to them directly in their Yahoo! Group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/

BTW, here is my code in C#

            var uri = new Uri(@"http://yboss.yahooapis.com/geo/placefinder?Location=" + txtAdd1.Text + "+" + txtCity.Text.Replace(' ', '+') + "," + txtState.Text + "+" + txtZip.Text);            var o = new OAuth.OAuthBase();            string nonce = o.GenerateNonce();            var timestamp = o.GenerateTimeStamp();            string normalizedUrl;            string normalizedParameters;            string strConsumerkey = "";            string strconsumerseceret = "";            strConsumerkey = txtConsumerkey.Text;            strconsumerseceret = txtConsumerseceret.Text;            string signature = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(                o.GenerateSignature(uri,                                    strConsumerkey,                                    strconsumerseceret, null, null, "GET",                                    timestamp, nonce, out normalizedUrl,                                    out normalizedParameters));            uri = new Uri(normalizedUrl + "?" + normalizedParameters + "&oauth_signature=" + signature);            using (var httpClient = new System.Net.WebClient())            {                result = httpClient.DownloadString(uri.AbsoluteUri);            }            System.Xml.XmlDocument xd = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();            xd.LoadXml(result);

Here is the code I used in C#

            var uri = new Uri(@"http://yboss.yahooapis.com/geo/placefinder?Location=" + txtAdd1.Text + "+" + txtCity.Text.Replace(' ', '+') + "," + txtState.Text + "+" + txtZip.Text);            var o = new OAuth.OAuthBase();            string nonce = o.GenerateNonce();            var timestamp = o.GenerateTimeStamp();            string normalizedUrl;            string normalizedParameters;            string strConsumerkey =             strConsumerkey = txtConsumerkey.Text;            strconsumerseceret = txtConsumerseceret.Text;            string signature = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(                o.GenerateSignature(uri,                                    strConsumerkey,                                    strconsumerseceret, null, null, "GET",                                    timestamp, nonce, out normalizedUrl,                                    out normalizedParameters));            uri = new Uri(normalizedUrl + "?" + normalizedParameters + "&oauth_signature=" + signature);            using (var httpClient = new System.Net.WebClient())            {                result = httpClient.DownloadString(uri.AbsoluteUri);            }            System.Xml.XmlDocument xd = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();            xd.LoadXml(result);

Hello,

I recently had to change the from the old where.yahooapis.com/geocode to the new BOSS. My code is in C#. It took me about 8+ hours to recode but I got it all working with oAuth and everything from my development machine in my domain, and on my testing server.

But now I went to put it into production on one of my customers servers and it does not work. They are a small business running with a static IP without a URL (if that matters). But even running a very simple testing call from their server it comes back

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.

Has anyone else had this? Help please.

Thanks in advance,

Keith

I agree what a pain it was and had no notice of the change and have customers with problems still with it.

It took me about 8+ hours to convert it and I can not get it to work on my clients servers now.

I did it in C#

ugh.

Hey guys,

So, we were using the old (now deprecated without warning) PlaceFinder API, which worked great. So now we're trying to figure out how to use OAuth with PlaceFinder. Is anyone else here confused as hell on how to do this? There are no clear examples (this: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/codeexamples.html does not work for me), and the step-by-step OAuth instructions (http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/guide/oauth-auth-flow.html) don't make any sense if all I want to do is a simple geolocation call.

Simply put, there are no clear instructions/examples on how to use the PlaceFinder API call. I've tried using the get_token_request to get a token secret, but that always gives me an 'signature_invalid' error. (I've tried both PLAINTEXT and HMAC-SHA1 signature methods.) I've also tried using an empty string for a token secret, but of course to no avail.

This is really terrible...I can't imagine that anyone at Yahoo actually tried to set up a PlaceFinder API call from scratch. Why the hell do I need to use OAuth to get some simple damn coordinates? Why the hell can't they just make the API call through HTTPS? Why are there no simple instructions? Why is there no simple Yahoo BOSS client library for Python, Ruby, etc.? Why the hell haven't I heard anyone complaining about this? Am I just stupid, or is making this API call needlessly complicated?

Thanks,

Osman

You have a virus. This link should help you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56a7x_ysbEM

STILL

I cant go to google!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Krisskross,

Unfortunately you're asking this in a forum dedicated to developers. None of us have the ability to help you here because we are not trained customer care representatives (and don't have access to customer accounts).

To get help with Yahoo Mail, you'll have to talk to a customer care rep at help.yahoo.com. I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you.

No matter how complex my password may be, someone or something manages to change my password every other day. With all my highly private and important information at risk, how does this company expect me to stay loyal?Everyone suggest I make the switch to gmail, but somehow I remain loyal, although my account is "hacked" darn near every day. Why should I stick with yahoo?

Can you explain the problem you are experiencing?

Karl,

The domain verification process checks via https if the file is not available via http. Do get back to us if you have trouble verifying your domain.

Vijay

This is awful. no notice and then can't find anything in the midst of using this for a business transaction. \

this really sucks.

Hi Duzins. Thanks for the youtube link. I am going to use it now. I hope that I can get my youtube and my google back. My computer is Mac. I'm surprised about getting virus on Mac computer. Does Mac get virus as well?