Yahoo! Search API Application Gallery
View web-based applications made with: Mashups of Multiple APIs - Yahoo! Web Search API - Yahoo! Image Search API - Yahoo! Local Search API - Yahoo! News Search API.
View downloadable modules made that use Yahoo! Search Web Services to cool effect, or help you build apps: Plug-ins - Client Applications - Libraries & sample code.
Mixed Usage of Yahoo! Search APIs
- Rollyo - Roll your own search engine.
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- Flixville.com - Yahoo! results integrated w/ Flixville Product Info and Search
Author(s): Mark Colley (support at flixville dot com)
Description: Data from Yahoo! News Search API and Images API integrated into product information and available as supplemental search results Comments: Allows jumping from a site's results directly to Yahoo! News or Yahoo! Image search with a search on same text string, in this case Star Wars.
- Yahoo! Search API Flash Demo
Author(s): Caleb Haye (calebh@yahoo-inc.com)
Description: A straight-forward, object oriented example using Flash/Actionscript as a front-end to access the Yahoo! Search Web Services API. Note: Written in actionscript 2.
- Yahoo!+AJAX Experiment
Author(s): Francis Shanahan (dotnet@(NO_SPAM)francisshanahan.com)
Description: AJAX experiment with Yahoo! Image, News, Movie and Web searches using XMLHttpRequest (Ajax techniques).
- French-speaking customized search engine
Author(s): Robert Viseur
Description: creation of vertical search engines ; profile with lists of exception of URL ; integration with Amazon WS (suggestion of books) and Alexa WS (analyzer of web sites) ; suggestion of keywords based on basic statistical analysis tests.
- Celebrity news/info pages
Author(s): John Krystynak
Description: Uses Yahoo! News, Image, Video, Related and Context APIs to build customized pages for over 400 celebrities. Integrated with Amazon and Google APIs.
- WhosWhoo?!?
Author(s): Filippo Diotalevi, http://www.diotalevi.com/weblog
Description: Uses Yahoo! News, Image, Web and other services to supply an online "Who's Who"-style service
- Ajax-based Scrolling Interface to Search
Author(s): Bill Scott, Darren James, Richard Cowin (See article at http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com)
Description: Using the Rico Ajax framework's LiveGrid behavior to demonstrate searching web, images and video with a scrolling interface. Scrollbar replaces the paging mechanism for simplified viewing of search results.
Web Search
- WebClust - Meta Search Engine - Clustering Technology Preview
Author(s): Vincenzo Bacarella (vincenzo.bacarella@gmail.com)
Description: !WebClust is a meta search engine based on a technology called "Document clustering": the automatic organization of documents into meaningful groups. (Note: beta preview - max 2500 queries/day)
- Cluster Search Demo
Author(s): JD Hodges
Description: Shows related document clusters. Uses a single Yahoo! API call to get 50 results, performs grouping and ordering, then returns the ten most relevant clusters linked to Yahoo! search results.
- Complementary results
Author(s): Jean-Luc Antoine (antoinejl at hotmail dot com)
Description: Using Yahoo! results to list complementary results to an internal search engine. Comments: Google API enhances Yahoo! results to get some textual information associated to image search.
- Zniff.com
Author(s): Spurl.net (spurl@spurl.net)
Description: Merges Yahoo! Search results with search results from Zniff.com - "the human search engine", upon users' request.
- Dynamic Site Search Box
Author(s): Chris Ridings of !SearchGuild.com
Description: Uses the Yahoo! API to provide a dynamic site search box. Enables site search without leaving the current page.
- LiveSearch powered by Yahoo!
Author(s): Kenny Gatdula (kennyg@pobox.com)
Description: Hack that uses the Yahoo! API and XMLHttpRequest to update the results listing.
- YahooBattle
Author(s): Chris Neale (chris at ooer.com)
Description: Battle different search terms and find a winner based on the number of results. A simple alternative PHP example to the included one, full source is available.
- Video Game News Search Powered by Yahoo!
Author(s): Tom !McKibben (tmckibben at proliphus.com)
Description: A search engine for video game news articles based on the PHP search example with lots of tweaks and more to come.
- Yahoo! Keyword Tracker
Author(s): Will Board (admin at webmaster-gadgets dot com)
Description: Keyword tracking system utilising Yahoo! Web Search.
- Hub Finder
Author(s): Aaron Wall (seobook at gmail dot com)
Description: Finds topical hubs by looking for pages which link to related resources.
- Link Harvester
Author(s): Aaron Wall (seobook at gmail dot com)
Description: Returns useful backlink information, also sorting out .edu and .gov type links.
- SpellWeb
Author(s): Steve Nelson (spellweb7 at clearink.com)
Description: Compares relative popularity of spellings or concepts based on web frequency.
- Topical OPML File
Author(s): Chris Ridings (of Christools.com)
Description: Takes a search term and uses Yahoo! !WebSearch searching RSS files to produce a topical OPML file for import into RSS aggregators.
Image Search
- Vizog Search Collage
Description: Upload a picture, select a search query and this collage generator will build the picture out of image tiles found using Yahoo! Image Search.
- Search Collage in French
Description: The same as the Vizog search collage generator but in French.
- The Yahoo! Image Game
Author(s): Philipp Lenssen (philipp.lenssen@gmail.com)
Description: This quiz game uses the Yahoo! API to present four images. Only three of the images belong together, one being an exception... and it's your job to pick the exception.
- Yahoo! Image Search Collage Generator
Author(s): Siddharth Uppal (siddhu@gmail.com)
Description: A Perl script to display Yahoo! Image Search results for the specified query, in the form of a beautiful collage. Source available!
- Patternizer B
Author(s): Philipp Lenssen (philipp.lenssen@gmail.com)
Description: Similar to Patternizer, this tool creates mosaics out of thumbnails collected vis the Yahoo! Image Search API.
- Milleniumline
Author(s): Philipp Lenssen, Alexandre Ksikes
Description: This shows the Yahoo! API image search results for the years 1000-2000 as a movie slideshow.
- Jeffrey Friedl's Image Search Tool
Author(s): Jeffrey Friedl (jfriedl@yahoo.com)
Description: A web-based tool for browsing Yahoo! Image Search results. Comments: Try the queries 'nature' or 'flower'
- Swaroop C H's Image Search GUI using PyQt
Author(s): Swaroop C H (swaroop at swaroopch.info)
Description: A Qt-based frontend for Yahoo! Image Search results.
- Yahoo! API Image Collage
Author(s): Philipp Lenssen (philipp@gmail.com)
- FindForward Direct Image Search
Author(s): Philipp Lenssen (philipp.lenssen@gmail.com)
Description: Written in PHP5, this is a Yahoo! API based image search which directly displays (large) versions of images.
- photoclock
Author(s): Ian Kirk (ianpkirk@yahoo.com)
Description: Flash-based clock that shows photographs that were taken at each minute of the day by searching for the timestamps that digital cameras give to their images.
- Mosaic
Author(s): Rich Hodge (rich@eatgolf.com)
Description: 29 x 29 Image collage of golfer Fred Couples with a large image pixelated and overlayed. Mouseover to show full size thumbs without opacity.
- Yahoo! Local on your Nokia
Author(s): Shamik Shah (shamik45 at yahoo dot com)
Description: Use Yahoo! Local on your cell phone!
News Search
- Yahoo! News Search as RSS 2.0 feeds
Author(s): Mark McLaughlin (mark@mclaughlin.me.uk)
Description: Takes a Yahoo! News keyword search and returns the results as a scalable RSS 2.0 feed.
- Yahoo! News Search as Atom 0.3 feeds
Author(s): Mark !McLaughlin (mark@mclaughlin.me.uk)
Description: Takes a Yahoo! News keyword search and returns the results as a scalable Atom 0.3 feed.
Plug-ins
- FirefoxSearchSidebar
Author(s): Marc Abramowitz (marca@yahoo-inc.com)
Description: A sidebar for Mozilla Firefox that integrates Yahoo! Search.
- yReplacer Bookmarklet
Author(s): Alan Taylor (kokogiak@gmail.com)
Description: A bookmarklet toy for Mozilla/IE that will swap selected text with a Yahoo! Image Search result.
- LookAhead Firefox Extension
Author(s): Bradley E. Rintoul (brintoul2001@yahoo.com)
Description: !LookAhead uses the Yahoo! search service to load in separate tabs the Urls returned from a search performed in the Firefox browser's search bar.
Applications
- Link Popularity Checker using PHP and Yahoo! API
Author(s): Owais Khan ( okhan at checkurl dot info)
Description: A downloadable link popularity tool written in PHP. Allows you to check the link popularity of domain names using the Alexa, Google and Yahoo! API. You can easily add/remove search engines via the administration panel.
- Yahoo! Web Services Midlet
Author(s): Deepak Nadig (dnanon at gmail dot com)
Description: Midlet for accessing Yahoo! Web Services from a J2ME device (Treo, etc.)
- Okapiland Explorer
Author(s): Akira Obayashi
Description: A personal Java HTTP server to work between the search engine and your browser so that immediately displays 10 linked pages instead of 10 hyperlinks with the contextual information. It can help you to reach your expected pages with less manual operation.
Libraries & Code Samples
- .NET
Author(s): First Floor
Description: The Web Search library provides a .NET interface for the Yahoo! Search Web Services. The library consists of a client API encapsulating the REST protocol, a strong-typed ResultSet object model and a web service providing a SOAP interface for the Yahoo! Search Web Services.
- ASP
Author(s): Peacekeeper Enterprises, LLC.
Description: Source code for accessing the five Yahoo! search API's implemented in VBScript under ASP using MSXML2 DOMDocument 3.0 to parse and format the results (example). No use restrictions.
- C# & VB.Net
Author(s): Martin G. Brown
Description: C# and VB.Net code that wraps the Yahoo! REST requests with simple function calls. Results returned in a serializeable, strongly typed, object model. All source code is provided along with a sample application to show how to use it.
- PHP5
Author(s): Daniel Wiegand (wiegi at php-tools dot net) and Stephan Schmidt (schst at php-tools dot net)
Description: PEAR-compatible Yahoo! Web Services Client for PHP5
- PHP4
Author(s): Jason Levitt (fredb86 at users dot sourceforge dot net)
Description: Helpful functions for quickly adding Yahoo! Web Services to PHP4 (and PHP5) scripts