http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-19T11:44:06+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-19T11:44:06+00:002009-08-19T11:44:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/19/termextraction/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/08/term_extraction_stays.html">By Popular Demand, We&#x27;re Keeping the Term Extraction Service</a></strong></p> Yahoo! aren’t shutting down the term extractor after all. On the one hand, this is a great decision—but this kind of back and forth (dare I say flip-flopping?) really doesn’t help encourage people to build against hosted APIs. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/termextractor">termextractor</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2009-07-30T12:20:30+00:002009-07-30T12:20:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/30/yahoo/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/07/developer_update.html">Today&#x27;s News and Yahoo!&#x27;s Developer Program</a></strong></p> “For SearchMonkey and BOSS, we currently do not have anything concrete to tell you” ... “We wanted to let you know that today’s news does not affect these products [YUI, YQL, Pipes]”. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/boss">boss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pipes">pipes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/searchmonkey">searchmonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo-pipes">yahoo-pipes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yui">yui</a></p>

2008-12-16T16:33:14+00:002008-12-16T16:33:14+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/16/caja/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.links.org/?p=460"><p>Yahoo! yesterday launched their new development platform for My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail, which uses Caja to protect users from malicious gadgets. This means Caja suddenly got 275,000,000 users. Wow! I guess this makes Caja the most widely used capability language ever.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.links.org/?p=460">Ben Laurie</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ben-laurie">ben-laurie</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/caja">caja</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo-mail">yahoo-mail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2008-02-03T22:18:44+00:002008-02-03T22:18:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/3/interview/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/01/interview_simon.html">Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID</a></strong></p> Christian Heilmann interviewed me for the YDN blog. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/interview">interview</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2007-06-02T00:53:01+00:002007-06-02T00:53:01+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jun/2/geohackers/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/06/geohackers_the.html">The Zonetag API Goes Public</a></strong></p> Awesome new API from YRB—given a cell tower ID can provide both a location and a list of suggested tags, based on data collected by ZoneTag. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/api">api</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cellid">cellid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/location">location</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tagging">tagging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yrb">yrb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/zonetag">zonetag</a></p>

2007-03-29T02:47:09+00:002007-03-29T02:47:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/29/introducing/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/03/mail.html">Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service</a></strong></p> 101 pages of documentation—this thing is huge! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/api">api</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo-mail">yahoo-mail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2006-09-29T19:21:12+00:002006-09-29T19:21:12+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Sep/29/yahoo/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/auth/">Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication</a></strong></p> This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/09/our_users_can_b.html">Yahoo! Developer Network blog: Our Users Can Be Your Users Too</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bbauth">bbauth</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2006-08-08T20:57:42+00:002006-08-08T20:57:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Aug/8/ydn-python/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/">YDN Python Developer Center</a></strong></p> Launched today: tips and tutorials on accessing Yahoo! Web services from Python. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2006-08-08T20:56:26+00:002006-08-08T20:56:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2006/Aug/8/ydn/#atom-tag

<p id="p-0">I recently had the opportunity to put together the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/">Python Developer Center</a> for the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Developer Network</a>. YDN is one of my favourite parts of Yahoo! so I jumped at the chance, and the resulting mini-site is now online (<a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/08/introducing_the.html">YDN blog post here</a>).</p> <p id="p-1">The bulk of the content is <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/#howto">the HOWTOs</a>, which discuss ways of accessing Yahoo! APIs using Python:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-rest.html">Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Python</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-caching.html">Cache API calls using Python</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-json.html">Parse JSON using Python</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-xml.html">Parse XML using Python</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-pysearch.html">Access the Yahoo! Search APIs using pYsearch</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-rss.html">Access Yahoo! RSS feeds using Python</a></li> </ul> <p id="p-2">I had a lot of fun playing around with different ways of accessing the APIs and working out which ones were the most natural fit. The HOWTOs use <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html">urllib</a>, <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html">urllib2</a> and <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.minidom.html">xml.dom.minidom</a> from the standard library, but also discuss <a href="http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/ref/module-httplib2.html">httplib2</a>, <a href="http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm">ElementTree</a> and <a href="http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson">simplejson</a> as third party libraries that are worth investigating. Naturally, <a href="http://www.feedparser.org/">feedparser</a> is the recommended tool for accessing Yahoo!'s <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/rss/">multitude of RSS feeds</a>.</p> <p id="p-3">Python really is a fantastic language for exploring web service APIs. All of the example code for the HOWTOs was first written in an interactive prompt and then copied to a file once it was working. Test-first development is certainly an important technique, but the power of interactive development should never be underestimated.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-services">web-services</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2005-12-15T23:53:17+00:002005-12-15T23:53:17+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2005/Dec/15/using/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/common/json.html">Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services</a></strong></p> No more cross-domain script access problems. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/2005/12/yahoo_loves_jav.html">Jeffrey McManus</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-services">web-services</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>