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When we launched our first APIs for Search, they were all located on api.search.yahoo.com. With an API offer that is growing every month, we have to separate APIs and our consumer offerings to make both easier to manage. All services that we offered on api.-property-.yahoo.com are now available at
Important for Flash developers: You need to update your applications with the new endpoints by December 11th because api.-property-.yahoo.com will no longer support Flash calls after that date.
We know that this will have a big impact for some of you and we apologize for that. Yahoo APIs infrastructure is still fairly new and we want to optimize the set-up now so that we don't have to make those changes in the future.
Dan Theurer
Posted by dantheurer at 9:12 AM | Comments (9)
I was poking around on CPAN recently as part of getting a Perl Development Center put together (coming soon) and happened to run a search for "yahoo bbauth."
Imagine my surprise to see that Jiro Nishiguchi has already created Yahoo::BBauth.
Excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 1:35 PM | Comments (0)
I have a friend who regularly calls me from his cell phone with random questions that he hopes I can answer. The conversation usually goes like this:
Friend: "Hey, are you near a computer?"
Me: "Yes." (I usually am.)
Then he proceeds to ask me a question that I type into Yahoo! Answers and I read the answer back to him. Anything for a friend, right? But so inefficient!
Now my friend won't need to use his phone to call me to ask his questions -- now he can go straight to the source using Yahoo! Answers on Mobile built on the Yahoo! Answers API. Read Kevin's blog for the details on why he built the application (Kevin is a "soccer dad" in Colorado).
The Answers team here at Yahoo! loves it and Jeremy does a nice job of putting Kevin's work into the bigger picture of what open APIs mean.
As Eric Raymond famously wrote, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." Kevin's particular itch was understanding soccer since his daughter had just started playing, but yours is probably different. Take your pick among our many services and surprise us with your creation -- the possibilities are indeed infinite.
Chad Dickerson
Yahoo! Developer Network
Posted by Chad Dickerson at 11:04 PM | Comments (2)
Not too long ago someone mentioned that it wasn't obvious how to get in touch with those of us on the Yahoo! Developer Network team. That surprised me until I took a fresh look at our web site myself.
It turns out that if you aren't using one of the API specific mailing lists we've setup, there really isn't an obvious route to us. To partially help that (we have more planned), we'll be enabling comments on all future posts to the YDN blog.
Of course we'll be on the lookout for spam (a sad fact of online life). We've also added our standard comment policy in the sidebar. As long as things stay on topic and respectful, there's shouldn't be much trouble.
Jeremy Zawodny
[Seriously: please keep comments relevant to the Yahoo! Developer Network. I've been removing a lot of off-topic comments here recently.]
Posted by jzawodn at 1:53 PM | Comments (25)
Minor updates to my PHP quickstart and Python class for Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication happened in the past day or so. The updates are not critical but you're better off with them. Thanks to Python pros Simon Willison and Mark Nottingham for their ongoing Python assistance.
Got .NET? Don't miss our HOWTO's for using BBauth in both C# and VB. Resident .NET expert Tomi Blinnikka shows us all how it's done.
Jason Levitt
Posted by at 6:50 PM
Dan Theurer explains what Browser Based Authentication is and walks through an example of how it works in this very short (5 min.) and very low-fi screencast.
(We did this in one take, and, yes, that is in fact my laptop's backup software that pops onto the screen at minute 4.)
Matt McAlister
Posted by Matt McAlister at 4:38 PM
Fresh off of our mega-successful Hack Day, we've got lots of code samples to feed your lust for Browser-Based Authentication and Photos APIs, and in multiple languages no less!
In our Ruby Developer Center, we've got a Ruby wrapper for BBauth by Premshree Pillai, as well as links to a Rails plug-in by Cameron Walters and Scott Fleckenstein, and a tutorial by Erik Kastner.
In and around our PHP Developer Center, PHP examples abound.
In the Yahoo! Application Gallery, Kent Brewster shows off his nifty YBBS, a prototype forum written in PHP that uses BBauth for authentication, and I have a Drupal module and a Wordpress plug-in that implement BBauth for the Drupal CMS and for Wordpress blogs.
Need a little more hand-holding? I've got a PHP Quickstart bundle that can get you up and running using BBauth in a pinch, and also contains my PHP4 and PHP5 classes for BBauth..
Dan Theurer also has a PHP tutorial about implementing Single Sign-On using BBauth on his blog as well as a nifty Photos application that uses BBauth.
Can't get Photos uploads to work? My PHP samples show how easy it is to upload photos into a Yahoo! Photos account using BBauth and the Photos API.
What about Coldfusion? Dov Katz has written a fine demo with source that implements BBauth for Coldfusion developers. Check it out in Gallery!
For Python, my BBauth class and mod_python example are now in the Python Developer Center.
Jason Levitt
Posted by at 1:10 PM
Here are the winning hacks from our first open Hack Day, described in the hackers' own words.
Full details are on the Hack Day blog; pictures are on Flickr; links are on del.icio.us. Enjoy!
Kent Brewster, Yahoo! Developer Network
Posted by Kent Brewster at 2:38 PM | Comments (3)
Upon request we added the 'format' parameter to the getTime service that controls the return format of the timestamp. The choices are milliseconds since 1970 or a UNIX timestamp with seconds since 1970. This addition makes the timestamp easier to use in JavaScript because the Date Object counts time in milliseconds.
Dan Theurer
Posted by dantheurer at 1:52 PM | Comments (0)
Friends of Redmond, start your engines! Today we're launching our .NET developer center to help you kick start development with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Yahoo! services. We even threw in some XAML love for all you budding Windows Presentation Foundation devs. Feel the urge to use Browser-Based Authentication with ASP.NET? No problem, we've hooked you up with an easy to use class that will get you rolling onto the road of glory in no time. All the samples are available in C# and VB.NET online and in a downloadable Sample Browser application (with source, no less!).
Also, we've got a brand spankin' new Yahoo! group: ydn-dotnet. Join, ask, contribute, and let us know what we can do to help.
Tomi Blinnikka
Posted by dantheurer at 8:00 PM
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