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  • Founded: Jul 12, 2006
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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...
1 Oct 12, 2010
7:41 pm

jlimcmmt
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What does this error mean? It worked yesterday, for the same exact query (see below). Does it mean I exceeded my limit? Query: ...
3 Sep 16, 2010
9:33 pm

MikeD
dorsemike
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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...
2 Jul 19, 2010
11:45 am

tom
thomasfogg
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I keep getting this response: {"Error":{"Title&quot;:"The following errors were detected:","Message&quot;:["service temporarily unavailable"]}} Any idea when it will be...
6 Jun 29, 2010
7:27 am

Dany Sonzogni
dany.sonzogni
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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,...
3 Jun 25, 2010
8:26 am

Rob
rob.sworder
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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...
1 Jun 25, 2010
8:23 am

angelxmoreno
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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...
1 Jun 24, 2010
3:27 pm

Christoph
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Hi, is there a problem with yahoo api again? It seems like it is not working. Thanks...
1 Jun 21, 2010
7:56 am

abel_chua2000
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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. ...
4 Jun 14, 2010
4:19 pm

bmsutherland
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this is slowing down my business and cant move forward until it working again.. can we get an estimate as to when the api will be working again?? thanks...
1 Jun 11, 2010
8:58 am

rbbaballa
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Hey All The answers API is down the team is working on a fix and will be ready shortly apologies for any inconvenience this causes will let you know when it is...
1 Jun 9, 2010
3:44 pm

idris_issa
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With reference to http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/V1/getByCategory.html Yesterday i am still able to retrieve results beyond 1000 up to 3000 to 4000...
1 May 25, 2010
10:17 pm

sky_light.rm
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Hi. I'm a researcher interested in studying and categorizing questions on Y! answers. I've been frustrated by an inability to get all the questions for a...
1 May 24, 2010
8:54 am

nathangoodphd
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I'm thinking of developing a small YA-based website application. I want to offer it for free to anyone passing by, but I'd like to include some ads on the...
1 May 12, 2010
7:40 am

jake898
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Hi, I notice that for an API question search you do not have a region option for New Zealand, yet there is a New Zealand specific Answers website. Is it...
2 Apr 23, 2010
8:10 am

Rob
rob.sworder
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I keep getting http error 400 with the following sample. The url is valid in my browser and it works for a regular search. I have also tried it with my own...
1 Apr 23, 2010
8:09 am

markbwarner
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... <?php $_GET["s"]=str_replace(" ","+",$_GET["s"]); $_GET["s"]=str_replace("'","+",$_GET["s"]); echo SimplePieWP('http://it.answers.yahoo.com/rss/searchq?p='...
2 Apr 23, 2010
8:05 am

Rob
rob.sworder
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I am getting this error message starting about noon every day. I know there is a limit to the queries, but I don't think I have done the max for the day. Is...
1 Apr 9, 2010
10:40 pm

tomgriff4557
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Hello, I would like to do some advanced searches like : - example 1: word1 or word2 - example 2: "word1 word2" - example 3: word1 -word2 The doc doesn't...
3 Mar 25, 2010
9:31 pm

buatoisjourdan
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Hello! Given a question from the Yahoo! Answers website, I am trying to use the API to retrieve answers to similar questions. The following returns an empty...
2 Mar 3, 2010
4:17 pm

ydn-answers-owner@yah...
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I'm not a developer but understand somewhat. I have been working with yahoo wather output and the condition codes are confusing. I have some images that refer...
2 Mar 3, 2010
2:14 pm

ydn-answers-owner@yah...
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I'm using the answers API web service for research purposes. I've noticed that the XML format is limited to chosen fileds of the Questions and answers. How can...
4 Mar 3, 2010
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ydn-answers-owner@yah...
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I want to get the following info about a specific user: - number of posts, - number of points, - level, - top contributer categories, - % best answer Does...
1 Jan 31, 2010
10:25 pm

Jeremy
jeremyma2000
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Hi Team, I am new to Yahoo! Answers. I am currently testing this on our website. Our Quality webserver is behind a firewall and when I try to run the page that...
1 Dec 7, 2009
8:18 am

Antonio
aclogarta
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I want to get the all the information of questions in http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/index and Yahoo Answers API(http://tw.developer.yahoo.com/knowledge/) is...
2 Dec 7, 2009
8:18 am

Adolph
adolphlay
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All I see are methods to retrieve answers, but can I post questions?...
2 Dec 7, 2009
8:18 am

Jan
jparicka
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Hi guys what is going on with the API key registration? It isn't working and I contacted Yahoo and they said the service is not available.. Does anyone know...
1 Dec 4, 2009
11:54 pm

MitzP
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Hi, it seems that the API only allows you to retrieve the one answer that has been chosen as the best one. Ideally I would like a dump of the Yahoo Answers...
3 Sep 22, 2009
7:25 pm

mattiatomasoni
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I want to develop a question recommendation engine which might help the community(especially for contributors) to better navigate and save time. Dose anybody...
1 Sep 21, 2009
9:40 pm

ablimith
ablimithaji
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FYI When trying: http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch?appid=test&query=test I get back "The following errors were detected: service...
1 Sep 19, 2009
4:26 pm

Jan Paricka
jparicka
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