Search APIs and Maps Building Blocks APIs now support JSON (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

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YDN YDN Blog Search APIs and Maps Building Blocks APIs now support JSON

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

December 15, 2005

Search APIs and Maps Building Blocks APIs now support JSON

We've added support for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as an output format in all the Search and Maps Building Block APIs in addition to XML. New parameters enable you to get JSON output and to specify a callback function for easy processing inside JavaScript. The combination of JSON and JavaScript is exceptionally powerful as it makes you easy to use our web services data directly in your script without parsing. See the docs for each of the of the Search and Maps Building Blocks APIs or the Common JSON Documentation for more details.

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Very cool. You know what would also be great? A serialized php array (output=php). Like JSON, it makes processing the data 10 times easier. Thanks!

Posted by: brandon at December 16, 2005 8:20 AM

This is a great addition! Makes developing websites much faster and easier now that we can use JSON.

Any possibility of getting JSON data out of Upcoming.org and Flickr APIs? Is this something Yahoo is even considering? I will be working with both of these soon and would love to have JSON available. Thanks!

Posted by: Alex at December 16, 2005 2:15 PM

How do I report a bug in the Yahoo Maps APi.

Posted by: John Opoku at December 19, 2005 11:33 AM

This is great news, JSON in fantastic for helping to data into JavaScript using AJAX.

Posted by: James Kern at February 14, 2006 8:25 AM

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