Anybody? =]

--- In ymedev@yahoogroups.com, "youngoat" <youngoat@...> wrote:
>
> First off, YMJ rocks and I was really excited to find that there's
an
> API for writing plugins. Yay! However I soon became sad when I
> discovered that there don't seem to be any interfaces for
*searching
> the catalog*. =[
>
> Any recommendations for doing this? Presumably I could search via
> http://music.yahoo.com/ and scrape the HTML, but that's annoying
and
> fragile and makes me want to cry a little.
>
> A while back, somebody stated that you could search using a query
> like http://yme.music.yahoo.com/search/ymediasearch.asp?
> type=<type>&search=<terms> and get back XML results, but I'm
getting
> zero results when I try that. =[ Anybody know why? (e.g.
> http://yme.music.yahoo.com/search/ymediasearch.asp?
> type=artist&search=moby)
>
> Please tell me that there's a new version of YMJ around the corner
> that'll have new API's for searching... Or that there are powerful
> web services for searching. Please please tell me that I don't
have
> to try to scrape the webpages... =]
>
> Sincerely,
> yg
>