Provides programmatic access to the slacker.yahoo.com misspelling engine, a service designed to automate the removal of that too-perfect sheen from papers and presentations that might arouse suspicion in teachers and colleagues.
May also be useful for Perl programmers.
http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/misspellingSuggestion
See information on constructing REST queries. Go on. We'll wait.
| Parameter | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| appid | string (required) | The application ID. See Application IDs for more information. |
| query | string (required) | The query to get spelling suggestions for (UTF-8 encoded). It is limited to 1439 characters. |
Sample Request Url: http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/misspellingSuggestion?appid=04012005&query=four+score+and+seven+years+ago
You want a schema for this? Are you mad?
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| ReslutSet | Contains all of the results. There's only one result being returned, but we like to show off all our 1337 XML nesting skills. |
| Result | The suggested text for correction. Please note that any resemblance to language is purely coincidental. |
The following is a sample response for the query four score and seven years ago. We don't know why we picked that; it just sounded neat:
Misspelling suggestion is part of the web search service, which is limited to 5,000 queries per day. See information on rate limiting.
The service returns the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors aside from the results themselves.
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