Neat! Now I just need to write a Java wrapper for the API which doesn't depend on JAXB and I'll be off and running.

There seems to be a problem with returning the last item in a search: The search with a start of 10
http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/contextSearch?appid=mindmanager&query=Scherotter&results=10&start=10&context=CAD returns two results.
While the same search with a start of 11 incorrectly returns no results:
http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/contextSearch?appid=mindmanager&query=Scherotter&results=10&start=11&context=CAD

i signed up today and am try'n to "GET" one of the xml pages using CFMX and the cfhttp tag, but it keeps giving me a "Connection Failure" message back... any ideas?

I believe that http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-search-web/message/30 will solve your Cold Fusion question. Please note that Contextual Web Search needs a POST, though, due to the potential length of the data.

not sure if this'll work, but here's the CF code i have to "GET" the xml data:

#cfhttp.statusCode#
#cfhttp.header#

#cfhttp.errorDetail#

and this is the HTTP Header information it's returning back to me:

200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Connection: close P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV" Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:47:14 GMT
Connection Failure

i'll try that again:

<cfhttp url="#feed#" method="get" resolveurl="no" redirect="yes">
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" />
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Accept-Encoding" value="deflate;q=0" />
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="TE" value="deflate;q=0" />
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="expires" value="#now()#" />
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" />
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="charset" value="utf-8" />
</cfhttp>
<cfoutput>
#cfhttp.statusCode#<br />
#cfhttp.header#<br />
</cfoutput>
<cfif cfhttp.responseheader.status_code EQ 200>
<cfdump var="#cfhttp.FileContent#" />
<cfabort />
<cfelse>
<cfoutput>#cfhttp.errorDetail#</cfoutput>
<cfabort />
</cfif>

got it working... thanks for the tip ;)

had to use the "charset" attribute on the cfhttp tag, and then it worked just fine.