Update Notification API

Yahoo! Site Explorer has moved to Bing Webmaster Tools.

Tell the Yahoo! Index when you have new content available.

The Update Notification service allows you to notify Yahoo! when your site changes. You may notify us about a single page, or a set of pages that need attention.

Request URL

http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification

Request parameters

See information on constructing REST queries

Parameter	Value	Description
appid	string (required)	The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
url	string (required)	The URL of the page to be submitted, or the URL of a feed containing site data. For details of the formats supported, please refer to Feed Formats Supported by Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Sample Request URL: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.yahoo.com

Response

There is no schema for this service. If successful, the service will return a success message:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Success xmlns="urn:yahoo:api"> <Message>Update notification has successfully submitted.</Message> </Success>

Rate Limits

The Site Explorer APIs are limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day and to noncommercial use. See information on rate limiting.

Terms of Use

Please see our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Site Explorer service returns the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.

Support & Community

The Site Explorer APIs are discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.