Site Explorer Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services

Support & Community

The Update Notification service is discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.

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. Full details of the format may be found here.

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 Limit

The Site Update service is limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

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

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Kent Brewster - 2007--0-7- 30: 0:9:: Site feed docs (as linked in the URL parameter above) are here:

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
John - 2007--0-4- 12: 2:0:: A question: The example just shows submitting the site, if you have a sitemap.xml file I assume you can submit that in the form of http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.anysite.com/sitemap.xml

This is how google does it so I assume it works properly for Yahoo also?