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The API seems to be working fine now. Such a shame it took a whole week to fix.
Can you give any insight as to why?

Thanks, bsutherland

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "idris_issa" <idris_issa@...> wrote:
>
>
> API Fix is being rolled out, should be live by COB 14/06. Please test and
verify all is is OK.
>
> Thanks
> Answers Team
>
> --- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "rbbaballa" <rbbaballa@> wrote:
> >
> > any news yet
> >
> > --- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "idris_issa" <idris_issa@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Answers API fix is being tested, will be deployed by early next assuming
testing goes OK over the weekend.
> > >
> > > Will provide further updates as and when available.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Answers Team
> > >
> >
>

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#148

From: "ratchetr" <ratchetr@...>
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:20 am
Subject: Malformed XML in UserPhotoURL

ratchetr

In rare cases, the UserPhotoURL may be malformed.

This can be seen on the YDN Answers start page .
Select GetByUser, Find 9uT6LZApaa

This generates the following error (using FireFox):
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo&user_id=9uT6LZApaa
Line Number 121, Column 277: <UserPhotoURL>http://ext.yimg.com/ec?url=http%3a%2f%2fexternal.ak.fbcdn.net%2fsafe_image.php%3fd%3d9c3cc71c96f6203b1bc909fdeb12f12e%26url%3dhttp%253A%252F%252Fprofile.ak.fbcdn.net%252Fhprofile-ak-snc4%252Fhs266.snc3%252F23076_100000616233414_212_q.jpg%26logo%26v%3d5&t=1277080785&ttl=3888000&sig=Q2Ek5jWG1.0avRA6kAADog--~B</UserPhotoURL>

Also throws an exception from the .NET XML reader.

Appears to be related to the &t= parameter in the URL.

#149

From: "abel_chua2000" <abel_chua2000@...>
Date: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:28 am
Subject: Yahoo answers

abel_chua2000

Hi,
is there a problem with yahoo api again?

It seems like it is not working.

Thanks

#150

From: "Christoph" <christoph.kofler@...>
Date: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:11 pm
Subject: questionSearch start limit

christoph.ko...

Hi everybody,

I have a problem with the questionSearch function of the Yahoo! Answers API,
particulary with the start parameter. If I input a value greater than 1000, an
error is returned.

If I for example execute the query

http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch?appid=YahooDemo&qu\
ery=query&start=1000

everything is fine and I get a perfectly normal result set.

But if I execute

http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch?appid=YahooDemo&qu\
ery=query&start=1001

I get a 400 HTTP error with the message "value out of range: start - greater
than 50". I don't understand why this error message is thrown -- the message
makes no sense, because already 1000 is greater than 50. Why does the error
occur at 1001, but not at 1000? Isn't it possible to get more than 1000
questions?

Thanks for your answer and help already in advance.

Cheers,

Christoph

#151

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:39 am
Subject: Re: Malformed XML in UserPhotoURL

rob.sworder

Hi,
Thanks for the information.

This bug has been reported to the Y!Answers team.

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "ratchetr" <ratchetr@...> wrote:
>
> In rare cases, the UserPhotoURL may be malformed.
>
> This can be seen on the YDN Answers start page
> <http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/>  .
> Select GetByUser, Find 9uT6LZApaa
>
> This generates the following error (using FireFox):
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> Location:
> http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo\
> &user_id=9uT6LZApaa
> Line Number 121, Column 277:
> <UserPhotoURL>http://ext.yimg.com/ec?url=http%3a%2f%2fexternal.ak.fbcdn.\
> net%2fsafe_image.php%3fd%3d9c3cc71c96f6203b1bc909fdeb12f12e%26url%3dhttp\
> %253A%252F%252Fprofile.ak.fbcdn.net%252Fhprofile-ak-snc4%252Fhs266.snc3%\
> 252F23076_100000616233414_212_q.jpg%26logo%26v%3d5&t=1277080785&ttl=3888\
> 000&sig=Q2Ek5jWG1.0avRA6kAADog--~B</UserPhotoURL>
>
> Also throws an exception from the .NET XML reader.
>
> Appears to be related to the &t= parameter in the URL.
>

#152

From: "angelxmoreno" <angelxmoreno@...>
Date: Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:17 am
Subject: More user info for Yahoo Answers users.

angelxmoreno

Is there a correlation between the YUI that Yahoo answers returns and a real
user profile? for my app I want to create a user profile page that links to the
user page on yahoo answers. So my question is how do i retrieve more info about
the user?

#153

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:20 am
Subject: Re: Malformed XML in UserPhotoURL

rob.sworder

Hi,

The rare cases occur when the user profile picture is hosted externally, and has
extra parameters.

This has been reported to the Y! Answers team.

Regards,

Rob

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "ratchetr" <ratchetr@...> wrote:
>
> In rare cases, the UserPhotoURL may be malformed.
>
> This can be seen on the YDN Answers start page
> <http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/>  .
> Select GetByUser, Find 9uT6LZApaa
>
> This generates the following error (using FireFox):
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> Location:
> http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getByUser?appid=YahooDemo\
> &user_id=9uT6LZApaa
> Line Number 121, Column 277:
> <UserPhotoURL>http://ext.yimg.com/ec?url=http%3a%2f%2fexternal.ak.fbcdn.\
> net%2fsafe_image.php%3fd%3d9c3cc71c96f6203b1bc909fdeb12f12e%26url%3dhttp\
> %253A%252F%252Fprofile.ak.fbcdn.net%252Fhprofile-ak-snc4%252Fhs266.snc3%\
> 252F23076_100000616233414_212_q.jpg%26logo%26v%3d5&t=1277080785&ttl=3888\
> 000&sig=Q2Ek5jWG1.0avRA6kAADog--~B</UserPhotoURL>
>
> Also throws an exception from the .NET XML reader.
>
> Appears to be related to the &t= parameter in the URL.
>

#154

From: Dany Sonzogni <dany.sonzogni@...>
Date: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:30 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Temporarily Unavailable?

dany.sonzogni

Hello,

API answers for Italian version of Yahoo Answers seems to be still down. Anyone know when will it be restored?

From: idris_issa <idris_issa@...>
To: ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 5:30:26 PM
Subject: [ydn-answers] Re: Temporarily Unavailable?

Hey

Answers API has a problem we are working on a fix to resolve this it cuurent ETA to resolve this 48 hours if it can be resolved sooner will let you know.

Thank you for patience

Answers Team

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "steven.ramkumar" <steven.ramkumar@...> wrote:
>
> I keep getting this response:
>
> {"Error":{"Title":"The following errors were detected:","Message":["service temporarily unavailable"]}}
>
> Any idea when it will be available again?
>
> -Steven
>

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#155

From: "toadysycophant" <toadysycophant@...>
Date: Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:33 pm
Subject: Complex search queries

toadysycophant

Hi - I'm trying to determine whether the Answers API supports complex search
queries. There appears to be no documentation that addresses this topic. For
example, can you use wildcards in searches, specify specific phrases, or exclude
words in searches? The web interface appears to support some of these options -
does the API? Informal testing appears to confirm that it does not, but I'd
appreciate an official answer. Thanks!

#156

From: "tom" <foggtom@...>
Date: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:16 am
Subject: Re: Complex search queries

thomasfogg

It supports AND, OR, ANDNOT and brackets of the form

query=(this AND that) ANDNOT theother

which would find matches containing this and that but not theother

Thanks

Tom

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "toadysycophant" <toadysycophant@...> wrote:
>
> Hi - I'm trying to determine whether the Answers API supports complex search
queries. There appears to be no documentation that addresses this topic. For
example, can you use wildcards in searches, specify specific phrases, or exclude
words in searches? The web interface appears to support some of these options -
does the API? Informal testing appears to confirm that it does not, but I'd
appreciate an official answer. Thanks!
>

#157

From: "jake898" <yahoo@...>
Date: Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:12 pm
Subject: Upside Down Username

jake898

Say, anyone know how this user/asker got their username to appear upside down?
Looks like some UTF-8 trick or something...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100825091532AAnr63p

-jake898

#158

From: "Camila Carina" <camila.carina@...>
Date: Mon Sep 6, 2010 5:11 pm
Subject: Information Users

camila_carina

I want to get the following info about a specific user:
- number of posts,
- number of points,
- level,
- top contributer categories,
- % best answer

Does anyone know what the API code for this info would be?

Thanks,

#159

From: "MikeD" <dorsemike@...>
Date: Tue Sep 7, 2010 6:35 am
Subject: ERROR 403: Forbidden

dorsemike

Hi, I am occasionally getting this error:
HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden.

For the first few days with this API active, everything was working properly,
but today, I'm getting this error.

It is happening even though I do not think I should be hitting the 5,000 visitor
rate limit.  I only had 1,500 visitors today.  So why would I be receiving this
403 error?

It's strange, because 1 out of every 10 times, the data is pulling correctly,
but then it will fail and give me this 403 error ~9 more times before working
again.

I have seen that maybe 5 or 10 others have had this problem in the past, but I
didn't see how they resolved it.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

#160

From: "jlimcmmt" <jlimcmmt@...>
Date: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:27 pm
Subject: using yahoo answers api to search all answers for terms

jlimcmmt

I am trying to retrieve an XML file containing all questions and answers
containing the term 'gene therapy'. The advanced search web interface allows
this to be done and comes back with about 1100 results at time of writing.

The yahoo answers API allows users to search through questions and best answers
for terms, but strangely does not seem to have a function allowing people to
search all answers for a specific term. Did I miss something, or does anyone
know a way to do this? Would anyone recommend using pipes or YQL as an
alternative?

#161

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Wed Oct 6, 2010 8:54 pm
Subject: Re: Upside Down Username

rob.sworder

Yahoo! Answers supports many languages and character sets, so utf-8 encoding is
used. This also includes some oddities, including reversed and flipped letters.
The user (or the person they copied) has probably used an online converter - try
searching for 'flip text'
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=flip+text&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35.

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "jake898" <yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> Say, anyone know how this user/asker got their username to appear upside down?
Looks like some UTF-8 trick or something...
>
> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100825091532AAnr63p
>
> -jake898
>

#162

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Wed Oct 6, 2010 9:01 pm
Subject: Re: Information Users

rob.sworder

At the moment, the current API does not support retrieval of this information.

Rob

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "Camila Carina" <camila.carina@...> wrote:
>
> I want to get the following info about a specific user:
> - number of posts,
> - number of points,
> - level,
> - top contributer categories,
> - % best answer
>
> Does anyone know what the API code for this info would be?
>
> Thanks,
>

#163

From: "zeetv75" <zeetv75@...>
Date: Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:29 am
Subject: Problem with region and multi word query ?

zeetv75

I'm trying to make a query with more than one word and different region : no
way. No result.

eg :
http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch?appid=YahooDemo&re\
gion=fr&type=all&results=10&query=jupe
-> ok; results

but :


http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch?appid=YahooDemo&re\
gion=fr&type=all&results=10&query=jupe+longue

-> no way

what's the problem ?

thanks for some help

#164

From: "codegod2" <codegod2@...>
Date: Fri Dec 17, 2010 7:17 am
Subject: Import into webpage

codegod2

Hi,

I would like to import questions and answers into my database and provide it on
my webpage.

1. Could you please tell me how this can be done or send me a link with the
documentation.

2. Is it allowed to store the content in my database?

3. Which links do I have to set to the original questions and answers and to the
members how provided the questions and answers?

Thanks and kind regargs

#165

From: "David" <david.hanson@...>
Date: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:48 am
Subject: API has completely changed and no warning

ontheblog...

Hi Guys,

I was using your previous API to build a mobile application and today I login to
the developer site and it seems the API has been replaced with the YSQL
approach.

What is the deal? I did not see any announcements about this happening and I
will have to rework my API to integrate. Can you please provide me with an
update on the old API as I am currently using this one and do not wish for it to
stop without warning.

#166

From: "caseyamcl" <caseyamcl@...>
Date: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:26 pm
Subject: Popularity Data

caseyamcl

Hello,

I have been using the API to gather data from the Yahoo Answers database on
health topics for research purposes.

We are interested in gathering, for each question, the number of people who
marked the question "Interesting".  So far, I have not seen a way to collect
this information from the API.

Instead, we have to run a script that scrapes it off the HTML page for each
question, which requires a separate expensive HTTP request per question to get
this data.  After a few hundred such requests, Yahoo servers block us with a
'999' response code for 24 hours.

is there any other more efficient way to collect popularity data for each
question?  Something obvious I might be missing?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Casey

#167

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:30 pm
Subject: Re: API has completely changed and no warning

rob.sworder

Hi,
the web service API is still currently the same; the missing API docs have been
restored to the developer site page.

Rob

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "David" <david.hanson@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I was using your previous API to build a mobile application and today I login
to the developer site and it seems the API has been replaced with the YSQL
approach.
>
> What is the deal? I did not see any announcements about this happening and I
will have to rework my API to integrate. Can you please provide me with an
update on the old API as I am currently using this one and do not wish for it to
stop without warning.
>

#168

From: "Juncong" <liujuncong@...>
Date: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:12 am
Subject: use weather api to get five day weather info, the address is wrong

liujuncong

feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=39322&u=c

this url return 2 days weather info.

the title is "Conditions for Watford, GB at 8:49 am GMT"

I got the code UKXX1190_c from the xml message.

feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss/UKXX1190_c.xml

this url return 5 days weather info.

the title is "Conditions for Daventry, UK at 9:19 am GMT"

the address message is wrong.

#169

From: "Juncong" <liujuncong@...>
Date: Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:19 am
Subject: why the[ Current Conditions] always unknown ?

liujuncong

feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=2165355&u=c

#170

From: "Payam F" <p_fard_2000@...>
Date: Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:00 pm
Subject: Questions Yahoo finance APIs!

p_fard_2000

Hi all,

I am looking to achieve the following and am wondering if Yahoo API's
(preferably Java or webservice) are the right tools to use. If so, can I find
code samples on how to achieve the following somewhere in the documentation?

1) provides stock quotes for a particular symbol
2) provides a stock chart for a symbol
3) provides news for a symbol
4) Summary information about each sector (i.e. health, etc.)
5) All market indices information

I would greatly appreciate any pointers/hints.

Thanks,
Payam

#171

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:28 pm
Subject: Re: why the[ Current Conditions] always unknown ?

rob.sworder

http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=615702 - this location (Paris) has
correct conditions (currently Fair) -
<yweather:condition  text="Fair"  code="34"  temp="61"  date="Mon, 28 Mar 2011
1:59 pm CET" />

The code for your location is 3200 (not available) -
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#codes

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "Juncong" <liujuncong@...> wrote:
>
> feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=2165355&u=c
>

#172

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:26 pm
Subject: Re: use weather api to get five day weather info, the address is wrong

rob.sworder

Hi,
I'm afraid this group is for discussion on the API for Yahoo! Answers - you may
find more information on the Weather API here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

Rob

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "Juncong" <liujuncong@...> wrote:
>
> feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=39322&u=c
>
> this url return 2 days weather info.
>
> the title is "Conditions for Watford, GB at 8:49 am GMT"
>
> I got the code UKXX1190_c from the xml message.
>
> feed://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss/UKXX1190_c.xml
>
> this url return 5 days weather info.
>
> the title is "Conditions for Daventry, UK at 9:19 am GMT"
>
> the address message is wrong.
>

#173

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: Questions Yahoo finance APIs!

rob.sworder

Hi,

This group is for discussion on the use of the Yahoo! Answers API. You may find
more information on other API by searching in http://developer.yahoo.com/

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "Payam F" <p_fard_2000@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking to achieve the following and am wondering if Yahoo API's
(preferably Java or webservice) are the right tools to use. If so, can I find
code samples on how to achieve the following somewhere in the documentation?
>
> 1) provides stock quotes for a particular symbol
> 2) provides a stock chart for a symbol
> 3) provides news for a symbol
> 4) Summary information about each sector (i.e. health, etc.)
> 5) All market indices information
>
> I would greatly appreciate any pointers/hints.
>
> Thanks,
> Payam
>

#174

From: "Thilina" <thilinaranaweera@...>
Date: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:47 am
Subject: Yahoo IM Plugin development

thilinaranaw...

Hi All

I need to know how to publish a custom developed yahoo plug-in to the yahoo IM.

regards
Thilina

#175

From: "Rob" <rob.sworder@...>
Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: Yahoo IM Plugin development

rob.sworder

Hi,

This group is for discussion of the API for Yahoo! Answers website. Please find
other YDN documentation here: http://developer.yahoo.com/

--- In ydn-answers@yahoogroups.com, "Thilina" <thilinaranaweera@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I need to know how to publish a custom developed yahoo plug-in to the yahoo
IM.
>
> regards
> Thilina
>