Yahoo Hack

Hacks 779: Introduction Basic sample code can get you started with Yahoo! Web Services, but to get to know what's available and how you might use the features of the API, this chapter shows you some more fully realized applications. They range from ...

When you type a query at Yahoo! Web Search (http://search.yahoo.com), Yahoo! will return a list of sites in an order that Yahoo! thinks is best. This is a great way to view results when you're looking for a specific bit of information, but it's not a...

When you browse to a web site you've never seen before, you don't have very much advance knowledge about the site. You might know that you've followed a link from a particular site that you read frequently, or you might have found the site in some se...

Have you ever wondered why it is so darn hard to import search results from Yellow Pages sites like Yahoo! Local (http://local.yahoo.com) into other programs? Whether you are at your desk or using your fancy Treo 650, wouldn't it be nice if you could...

The Yahoo! Local Search service allows you to search the Internet for businesses near a specified location. With the availability of a REST web service interface to Yahoo! Local Search, it is quite simple to implement an application that enables mobi...

Having access to the Yahoo! Local API is like being able to effortlessly move entries from the physical Yellow Pages to your computer. And dumping the entries into a structured environment like Excel can give you a new way to look at Yahoo! Local Sea...

The Web of Letters is a PHP script that uses the Yahoo! Image Search API to grab images of letters from all over the Web to spell words. The resultsa combination of photos and illustrationsare always surprising and can even look like modern art. You ...

People love to change their desktop backgrounds. It's one of the first skills that new computer users learn, and even old computer pros fiddle with their desktop background image on a fairly regular basis. Browsing through the aisles of your local co...

Windows users aren't the only ones who can experience the fun that is random desktop backgrounds [Hack #83]. By using Yahoo! as your own image database, you can automatically change your Mac desktop background picture when the mood strikes. If you u...

In the music world, a mash-up combines two or more existing songs into something entirely new. A mash-up might have a song from the Beatles in the background and vocals from Snoop Dogg in the foreground, while blending in a Sesame Street song at the ...

Some books are better with pictures, and some web pages would be better with illustrations. You can't edit every text-heavy page on the Web yourself, but you can have some fun swapping words with images thanks to a clever script called yReplacer. Wi...

Isn't the task of inserting links into web pages mundane? The Yahoo! Auto-Linker solves this problem by automatically substituting keywords in anytext with hyperlinks to top Yahoo! searches for that keyword. The result of this hack can be useful and ...

As you consume the news each day, you get a general sense of what the big stories are. If CNN is leading the hour with news about the Supreme Court, you open the newspaper to find a story about the Supreme Court on the front page, and then you spot a...

Though widely used, JavaScript has never been considered an indispensable development language. That perception is changing, though, thanks to improvements in web browsers. Now that most widely used web browsers support a standard form of JavaScript,...

Though the Yahoo! Search engine is something each of us use in isolation, from Yahoo!'s perspective searching is a group activity. They have the ability to analyze each individual query and group it together with other, similar queries. When you do a...

An online mapping service such as Yahoo! Maps (http://maps.yahoo.com)is a vast improvement over the multifold paper maps that are stashed in your glove compartment. Enter your starting address and an end address at Yahoo! Maps, and you'll get a detai...