Yahoo! Web Services
Paul Bausch, O'Reilly Network
I browse news, check stock prices, and get movie times with Yahoo! Even though I interact with Yahoo! technology on a regular basis, I've never thought of Yahoo! as a technology company. Now that Yahoo! has released a Web Services interface, my perception of them is changing. Suddenly having programmatic access to a good portion of their data has me seeing Yahoo! through the eyes of a developer rather than a user.
Yahoo's Web Services use the familiar REST architecture, where specially constructed URLs return an XML response in a unique format. In addition to web search results, Yahoo's API includes the ability to fetch results for images, local information, news, and video. Along with their API, Yahoo! is opening several official channels of communication with developers. They've started mailing lists for each API section: News, Images, Video, etc. They've also started a Web Services weblog for announcements and a wiki for public collaboration and tracking new applications. Yahoo! is finally appealing to my inner geek, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with their API.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/02/28/yahoo.html
See also the Developer FAQ: http://developer.yahoo.net/faq/
I browse news, check stock prices, and get movie times with Yahoo! Even though I interact with Yahoo! technology on a regular basis, I've never thought of Yahoo! as a technology company. Now that Yahoo! has released a Web Services interface, my perception of them is changing. Suddenly having programmatic access to a good portion of their data has me seeing Yahoo! through the eyes of a developer rather than a user.
Yahoo's Web Services use the familiar REST architecture, where specially constructed URLs return an XML response in a unique format. In addition to web search results, Yahoo's API includes the ability to fetch results for images, local information, news, and video. Along with their API, Yahoo! is opening several official channels of communication with developers. They've started mailing lists for each API section: News, Images, Video, etc. They've also started a Web Services weblog for announcements and a wiki for public collaboration and tracking new applications. Yahoo! is finally appealing to my inner geek, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with their API.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/02/28/yahoo.html
See also the Developer FAQ: http://developer.yahoo.net/faq/
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