Yahoo Hack

Hacks 6876: Introduction As you've already seen, Yahoo! provides an impressive amount of information on its sites. And through the years, private hackers have found ways to use Yahoo! data in their scripts and programs. A search for Yahoo! in the Pe...

1. What Are Web Services? The term web service refers to a set of standards for exchanging data between two systems. Though the systems may be built with completely different platforms, the web service protocols allow the systems to exchange informa...

Perl is great for getting things done quickly, and fetching search results from Yahoo! is no exception. This hack shows a simple way to access Yahoo! with Perl, using minimal code. Think of it as a doorway to Yahoo! that you can drop into your own Pe...

The recursively named PHP Hypertext Processor language is a popular choice for building dynamic web applications. In fact, Yahoo! itself has made PHP its development platform of choice across the company. The PHP platform is continually evolving, and...

The Yahoo! Developer Network web site (http://developer.yahoo.net) provides a number of tools to help developers build applications with Yahoo! data. Their Yahoo! Search Web Services software development kit (SDK) includes a handy Python library call...

VBScript is a general-purpose scripting language for Windows, and it gets its name from Visual Basic, its big brother of a programming language. With a few tweaks here and there, the code in this hack could add Yahoo! searching to Office applications...

ColdFusion is a development platform for creating web applications. Its tag based template structure is a popular choice for HTML developers who want to move to more dynamic content and are already familiar with using tags. In fact, if you were to gl...

The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a tag-based template system that can transform any XML document into any other text format, including other flavors of XML or, more commonly, HTML. Like a scripting language, XSL defines what data should go...

Simple REST, XML-over-HTTP interfaces like the one Yahoo! provides are most often associated with scripting languages such as Perl or PHP, while Javaa compiled languageis viewed as a better tool for working with more complex web services protocols. I...

The Yahoo! Developer Network web site (http://developer.yahoo.net) provides a number of tools to help developers build applications with Yahoo! data. Their Yahoo! Search Web Services software development kit (SDK) includes libraries for various progr...

Relative Expression-based Object Language (REBOL) is a technology that provides a lightweight method of distributed computing and communication. REBOL is a messaging language, which means it was built specifically to send messages across Internet pro...