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Mike Johnson wrote:

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Jay,

I found my answer:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html

*Developers may request up to 1000 results in a single API call

I have to say though that the behavior of providing results 990 - 1000 repetitively after that is quite odd.

Hello Mike,

The current BOSS design purposely has the following behavior:

�� * The universal argument of "start=___" is limited to a max value of 1000.
�� * If a "start=___" value is greater than 1000, it is always replaced with a value of "990".

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The above design decisions explain why you are seeing the results you are seeing, with your experiments.

There are currently no plans to modify this above behavior.� But if at some point we do, we will let you know.

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Thanks,
Jay

Mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@imagefortress.com> wrote:

Hello Jay,

Thanks for the responses. I have one more question with the following background. Is there a limit of 1000 images returned? Seems so when you read the following.

Image query = "sci fi spaceship"
deep hits = 9418
total hits = 9418

I have changed the code to loop through and gather images in groups of 50 based on the max count = 50 per request by incrementing the :start by 50 each time. I have noticed that I am getting duplicate images (image.url, image.referererurl...) starting at :start = 1000. Regardless of asking for 1000 --> 1050 I am actually getting 5 sets of 990 --> 1000. This pattern repeats - request for 1100 --> 1150 returns 5 sets of 990 --> 1000, and so on. I confirmed the above by storing all image.url and image.refererurl in a hash and comparing all new entries for its existence in the hash. As soon as I hit image 1000 the following images and corrresponding image.refererurl already exist in the hash.

Mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

�

Hello again Mike,

Mike Johnson wrote:
�

Did this change recently. I swore I was getting more than 50 back a couple months back.

It has actually been this way since the July 2008 launch.

Also if I want to get the 51 --> 100 would I just make the same query with :start = 51?

Correct.

Thanks,
Jay

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

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Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

�� http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:

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I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

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#2339

From: "christian.kroll83" <christian.kroll83@...>
Date: Wed Dec 9, 2009 11:36 am
Subject: Restrict Search To A Single Country

christian.kr...

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Hi,

As far as I know there is no option to restrict BOSS searches to a single
country like "pages from Australia". When will this option be available?

This feature is really important for people coming from countries like UK,
Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Austria.

Best,

ChrischiK

#2338

From: "Shailen" <st1999@...>
Date: Tue Dec 8, 2009 1:57 am
Subject: Re: "Explore related concepts'

tulishailen

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Thanks for the response. I had actually been playing around with very similar
ideas myself and managed to display calcualated/aggragated results fairly
satisfactorily. In the case of my app, this seems like needless work, though:
clearly, Yahoo does all the calculating on its own - hence the way the 'related
concepts' are displayed when using regular search - and I wish there were a way
to access those 'related concepts' directly through BOSS.  My app is going to be
run on Google App Engine: hence, the need for being super conservative with
using CPU resources.

- Shailen

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Ted Drake" <tdrake@...> wrote:
>
> I do something like this. It's actually fairly easy with all of the
> information you can get from BOSS.
>
> Here's an example page: http://insiderarts.com/mona+lisa.html
>
>
>
> I'm building the related terms for each result by analyzing:
>
> 1.       The keyterms associated by boss
>
> 2.       The delicious tags used by people that have saved a link in
> Delicious
>
> 3.       Microformatted tags used by the web site via the search monkey
> option.
>
> I create an array of all the associated keyterms and then look to see if
> any have been used more than once. Those are then moved to the front and
> I list the top four keyterms for each result.
>
>
>
> I do a similar logic to create the related search terms in the right
> column, only I use the combined values for all of the results for the
> page.  I also use that uber array to resort the results. Notice the
> first result is for the National Gallery of Art and not the louvre. That
> is because the #1 keyterm for the national gallery's page is "Mona Lisa"
> and that matches the number 1 keyterm for the page. The number one
> keyterm for the louvre is closer look.
>
>
>
> Here's an example where the top 5 matched yves klein as their number 1
> keyterm: http://insiderarts.com/yves+klein.html
>
>
>
> Here's a blog post I wrote about this concept:
> http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/boss_updates.html
>
>
>
> Ted
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of tulishailen
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:57 AM
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] "Explore related concepts'
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo search has a very useful 'Explore related concepts' area. Is there
> any way to replicate the results using BOSS? I've been playing around
> with view=keyterms, but that results in suggested searches/keyterms for
> every retrieved result. I'm looking for the sort of functionality
> provided by the 'Explore related concepts' service: a handful of
> keywords related to the query in general. Anyone know of a way to do
> this with BOSS? Many thanks in advance.
>
> - Shailen Tuli
>

#2337

From: "Ted Drake" <tdrake@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 8:41 pm
Subject: RE: "Explore related concepts'

t_drake_net

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I do something like this. It’s actually fairly easy with all of the information you can get from BOSS.

Here’s an example page: http://insiderarts.com/mona+lisa.html

I’m building the related terms for each result by analyzing:

1. The keyterms associated by boss

2. The delicious tags used by people that have saved a link in Delicious

3. Microformatted tags used by the web site via the search monkey option.

I create an array of all the associated keyterms and then look to see if any have been used more than once. Those are then moved to the front and I list the top four keyterms for each result.

I do a similar logic to create the related search terms in the right column, only I use the combined values for all of the results for the page. I also use that uber array to resort the results. Notice the first result is for the National Gallery of Art and not the louvre. That is because the #1 keyterm for the national gallery’s page is “Mona Lisa” and that matches the number 1 keyterm for the page. The number one keyterm for the louvre is closer look.

Here’s an example where the top 5 matched yves klein as their number 1 keyterm: http://insiderarts.com/yves+klein.html

Here’s a blog post I wrote about this concept: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/boss_updates.html

Ted

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tulishailen
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:57 AM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] "Explore related concepts'

Yahoo search has a very useful 'Explore related concepts' area. Is there any way to replicate the results using BOSS? I've been playing around with view=keyterms, but that results in suggested searches/keyterms for every retrieved result. I'm looking for the sort of functionality provided by the 'Explore related concepts' service: a handful of keywords related to the query in general. Anyone know of a way to do this with BOSS? Many thanks in advance.

- Shailen Tuli

#2336

From: "tulishailen" <st1999@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 7:57 pm
Subject: "Explore related concepts'

tulishailen

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Yahoo search has a very useful 'Explore related concepts' area. Is there any way
to replicate the results using BOSS? I've been playing around with
view=keyterms, but that results in suggested searches/keyterms for every
retrieved result. I'm looking for the sort of functionality provided by the
'Explore related concepts' service: a handful of keywords related to the query
in general. Anyone know of a way to do this with BOSS? Many thanks in advance.

- Shailen Tuli

#2335

From: kailash sati <kailash_343@...>
Date: Sat Dec 5, 2009 5:37 am
Subject: results may get repeated

kailash_343

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Hi Team

i am able to extract all the results through the folowing code. But the results may get repeated. So could u plz tell me how can i avoid this. Moreover could you plz tell me

how can I extract more than 1000(max) results.

while($newval<=100)
{
echo $newval;
$thequery = 'faq';
$new=0;
$yhost = 'http://boss.yahooapis.com';
$apikey = 'some key';
$url = $yhost.'/ysearch/web/v1/'.$thequery.'?appid='.$apikey.'&format=xml&count=100&start='.$newval;
//Get the results
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$results = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$cnt=0;
//echo the resultsA
echo " Helo";
foreach ($results->resultset_web->result as $theresult) {
//echo '<a href="'.$theresult->clickurl.'">'.$theresult->title.'</a> ';
//echo $theresult->abstract.' ';
echo $cnt;
echo ''.$theresult->dispurl.' ';
echo ' ';
$cnt++;
//echo $cnt;
}

$newval+=50;
//echo "kailash";
}
Please help me out

Kailash

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#2334

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Sat Dec 5, 2009 1:08 am
Subject: Re: New to BOSS

sboss64

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Hello Kailash,

To accomplish finding search results that contain the text "FAQ" within the URL's themselves, you can use the "inurl:xxxxx" query filter, such as this BOSS API example (but with the APP ID taken out, on purpose):

 $
 $ wget --output-document=- --quiet "http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/inurl:FAQ?appid={insert your APP ID here}&format=xml&lang=en&region=us" | grep "<url>" | awk -F">" '{print $2}' | awk -F"<" '{print $1}'
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ
 http://www.answers.com/topic/faq
 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ.html
 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/software-eng/testing-faq/
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:FAQ
 http://us3.php.net/FAQ.php
 http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html
 http://www.utorrent.com/faq
 http://blog.pandora.com/faq/
 http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/faq/
 $

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Notice above that all 10 of the results have "FAQ" within their URL.

You can read more about this here:

 http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/

...and then do a Find in your browser for the web page text of:

 "Related Content for a Blog"

...to then see this text:

>>
>> BOSS allows you to use most of the common query filters
>> available in an advanced search. This list includes:
>>
>> * inurl (search for the term in a web site's url)

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I'll try and pursue getting this added to our official public BOSS API docs, but cannot guarantee.

I would not be able to help you specifically on your PHP code (your follow-up email, after this one). But hopefully the above gets you on the correct track, or if you still need help on your PHP code, somebody else in this user group could assist you with that.

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Hope this helps,
Jay

kailash sati wrote:

Hi Team

I want to extract all the urls which contain word "FAQ "or "queries" in them.

for e.g. http://www.dpsblr.com/queries.php

so the above url contains the word "queries" in it.

Can u please provide me a sample code or any link which explains that.

Thanks & Regards,

Kailash

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#2333

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Sat Dec 5, 2009 12:01 am
Subject: Re: 1000 links limit

sboss64

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Hello Frank,

You are limited to 50 results (links) maximum, which is documented under the universal "count" argument:

 http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

And I just verified this by performing this below "se_inlink" query, for "count=51":

 http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/se_inlink/v1/http:%2f%2fmail.yahoo.com?appid={insert your APP ID here}&format=xml&count=51

...and in the XML response back, it purposely shows "count=50" instead, for the result set:

 <resultset_se_inlink count="50" start="0" .... >

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Hope this helps,
Jay

Frank wrote:

Hello,
BOSS services called se_inlink is limited to 1000 links?
thank you for your answer.
Frank

#2332

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: inconsistent results between api and search interface

sboss64

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Hello Baz,

There are several differences between your below Y! Search example, compared to your below BOSS almost-equivalent API search call.

To get the same results through BOSS as your below Y! Search example, the equivalent BOSS API call would instead be:

http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/Associations%20of%20dietary%20sugar%20and%20glycemic%20index%20with%20adiposity%20and%20insulin%20dynamics%20in%20overweight%20Latino%20youth.?appid={insert your APP ID here}&format=xml&lang=en&region=us&count=10

---------------

Hope this helps,
Jay

thinkloop wrote:

Hi,

If I run this search on the main yahoo site, I get about 80 results:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGk0VorRNLl3EACDNXNyoA?p=Associations+of+dietary+sugar+and+glycemic+index+with+adiposity+and+insulin+dynamics+in+overweight+Latino+youth.&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-701&vm=p&vf=all&vs=&sao=1

However if I run a similar search using the API, I get over 10,000 results:

http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/%22Associations%20of%20dietary%20sugar%20and%20glycemic%20index%20with%20adiposity%20and%20insulin%20dynamics%20in%20overweight%20Latino%20youth%2E%22%20%22Davis%22?appid=zAy6jMXV34GjUSzOHWXekGPmh8.lwcKMF5vNvxhvecd7UP6Tg5FT6YYSyH.zFvRGO.J3zQ--&format=xml&count=0&style=raw

Why is that?

Thanks!

Baz

#2331

From: "Renesa" <renesa_05@...>
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 5:59 am
Subject: Newbie question

renesa_05

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Hi everyone,

I am new in yahooboss. I am developing a search engine with some moderation for
one of my course project. Can anyone help me regarding how I can use the dates
of the search result and manipulate them like show them in a graph or something.
I am doing it in php.

Thanks for any kind of help.

Renesa

#2330

From: kailash sati <kailash_343@...>
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 4:50 am
Subject: repeating the results

kailash_343

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Hi Team

Now i changed the loop structure but its repeating the first 50 results. I am changing the value of start but still its repeating the results.

How can I extract the results from 51-100 through the loop?

$newval=0;
//Gather data and prepare query
while($newval<=100)
{
echo $newval;
$thequery = 'faq';
$new=0;
$yhost = 'http://boss.yahooapis.com';
$apikey = 'mwsQIyPV34EQehuPWvLs9qrEJQGjv7.Rz.LdUyv8vHKSDxeAGYejoz2mm2XBUQKvh1k-';
$url = $yhost.'/ysearch/web/v1/'.$thequery.'?appid='.$apikey.'&format=xml&count=100&start='.'$newval';
//Get the results
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$results = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$cnt=0;
//echo the resultsA
echo " Helo";
foreach ($results->resultset_web->result as $theresult) {
//echo '<a href="'.$theresult->clickurl.'">'.$theresult->title.'</a> ';
//echo $theresult->abstract.' ';
echo $cnt;
echo ''.$theresult->dispurl.' ';
echo ' ';
$cnt++;
//echo $cnt;
}

$newval+=50;
//echo "kailash";
}

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#2329

From: kailash sati <kailash_343@...>
Date: Fri Dec 4, 2009 4:26 am
Subject: loop for extracting more than 50 results

kailash_343

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Hi Team

could you please tell me how to extract all the result if my count is 100. I wrote the following while loop but it is going infinite.

could you please tell me the correct loop so that i can extract all the 100 results as it shows only 50 results(max on first page)

$url = $yhost.'/ysearch/web/v1/'.$thequery.'?appid='.$apikey.'&format=xml&count=100&start=0';
$newval=0;
//Get the results
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$results = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$cnt=0;
//echo the resultsA

while($results->nextpage){
echo " Helo";
foreach ($results->resultset_web->result as $theresult) {
//echo '<a href="'.$theresult->clickurl.'">'.$theresult->title.'</a> ';
//echo $theresult->abstract.' ';
echo $cnt;
echo ''.$theresult->dispurl.' ';
echo ' ';
}
if($newval<=100){
$newval=$new+50;
$url = $yhost.'/ysearch/web/v1/'.$thequery.'?appid='.$apikey.'&format=xml&count=1000&start='.'$newval';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$results = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

}

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#2328

From: Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 10:23 pm
Subject: Re: Image queries only a result set of 50

mjj_api_image

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Jay,

I found my answer:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html

*Developers may request up to 1000 results in a single API call

I have to say though that the behavior of providing results 990 - 1000 repetitively after that is quite odd.

Mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@...> wrote:

Hello Jay,

Thanks for the responses. I have one more question with the following background. Is there a limit of 1000 images returned? Seems so when you read the following.

Image query = "sci fi spaceship"
deep hits = 9418
total hits = 9418

I have changed the code to loop through and gather images in groups of 50 based on the max count = 50 per request by incrementing the :start by 50 each time. I have noticed that I am getting duplicate images (image.url, image.referererurl...) starting at :start = 1000. Regardless of asking for 1000 --> 1050 I am actually getting 5 sets of 990 --> 1000. This pattern repeats - request for 1100 --> 1150 returns 5 sets of 990 --> 1000, and so on. I confirmed the above by storing all image.url and image.refererurl in a hash and comparing all new entries for its existence in the hash. As soon as I hit image 1000 the following images and corrresponding image.refererurl already exist in the hash.

Mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:

�

Hello again Mike,

Mike Johnson wrote:
�

Did this change recently. I swore I was getting more than 50 back a couple months back.

It has actually been this way since the July 2008 launch.

Also if I want to get the 51 --> 100 would I just make the same query with :start = 51?

Correct.

Thanks,
Jay

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:

�

Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

�� http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:

�

I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

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*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

--
*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

--
*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

#2327

From: Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 10:19 pm
Subject: Re: Image queries only a result set of 50

mjj_api_image

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Hello Jay,

Thanks for the responses. I have one more question with the following background. Is there a limit of 1000 images returned? Seems so when you read the following.

Image query = "sci fi spaceship"
deep hits = 9418
total hits = 9418

I have changed the code to loop through and gather images in groups of 50 based on the max count = 50 per request by incrementing the :start by 50 each time. I have noticed that I am getting duplicate images (image.url, image.referererurl...) starting at :start = 1000. Regardless of asking for 1000 --> 1050 I am actually getting 5 sets of 990 --> 1000. This pattern repeats - request for 1100 --> 1150 returns 5 sets of 990 --> 1000, and so on. I confirmed the above by storing all image.url and image.refererurl in a hash and comparing all new entries for its existence in the hash. As soon as I hit image 1000 the following images and corrresponding image.refererurl already exist in the hash.

Mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:21 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:

�

Hello again Mike,

Mike Johnson wrote:
�

Did this change recently. I swore I was getting more than 50 back a couple months back.

It has actually been this way since the July 2008 launch.

Also if I want to get the 51 --> 100 would I just make the same query with :start = 51?

Correct.

Thanks,
Jay

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:

�

Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

�� http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:

�

I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

--
*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

--
*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

#2326

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 6:21 pm
Subject: Re: Image queries only a result set of 50

sboss64

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Hello again Mike,

Mike Johnson wrote:

�

Did this change recently. I swore I was getting more than 50 back a couple months back.

It has actually been this way since the July 2008 launch.

Also if I want to get the 51 --> 100 would I just make the same query with :start = 51?

Correct.

Thanks,
Jay

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

�

Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

�� http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:

�

I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

--
*************************

Mike Johnson
Dir Professional Services
Image Fortress Corp.
978-846-0139 (work)

#2325

From: kailash sati <kailash_343@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 12:25 pm
Subject: new to BOSS

kailash_343

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Hi Team

The following is my code. It returns only max 10 results. If I search on yahoo.com it gives me lots of reults. Iam trying to display all the urls which has "faq" word in their url.

please help me out.

<?php

$thequery = 'faq';
$yhost = 'http://boss.yahooapis.com';
$apikey = 'mwsQIyPV34EQehuPWvLs9qrEJQGjv7.Rz.LdUyv8vHKSDxeAGYejoz';
$url = $yhost.'/ysearch/web/v1/'.$thequery.'?appid='.$apikey.'&format=xml';

//Get the results
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$results = new SimpleXmlElement($data, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

//echo the results
foreach ($results->resultset_web->result as $theresult) {
echo '<a href="'.$theresult->clickurl.'">'.$theresult->title.'</a> ';
echo $theresult->abstract.' ';
echo ''.$theresult->dispurl.' ';
echo ' ';
}

Thanks & Regards

Kailash

The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.

#2324

From: kailash sati <kailash_343@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 8:15 am
Subject: New to BOSS

kailash_343

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Hi Team

I want to extract all the urls which contain word "FAQ "or "queries" in them.

for e.g. http://www.dpsblr.com/queries.php

so the above url contains the word "queries" in it.

Can u please provide me a sample code or any link which explains that.

Thanks & Regards,

Kailash

The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.

#2323

From: Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 8:17 pm
Subject: Re: Image queries only a result set of 50

mjj_api_image

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Did this change recently. I swore I was getting more than 50 back a couple months back.

Also if I want to get the 51 --> 100 would I just make the same query with :start = 51?

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:

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Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

�� http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:
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I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

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#2322

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 8:03 pm
Subject: Re: Image queries only a result set of 50

sboss64

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Hello Mike,

Yes, this "50" limit is correct, and is documented here, under the "count" argument:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/overview.html

Jay

mjj_api_image wrote:

I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

#2321

From: "mjj_api_image" <mike.johnson@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 7:46 pm
Subject: Image queries only a result set of 50

mjj_api_image

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I am using the ruby gem eshopworks-rboss (0.1.9) to access the api and if I set
the count = anything greater than 50 it still only returns 50. The result set
totalhits = 9986. If I set count=5 I get 5, count = 20 I get 20. If count = is
set to anything greater than 50 I always only get 50.

Is anybody else having this problem. Their is nothing in the documentation to
state that there is a limit on the number returned.

Mike

#2320

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 7:09 pm
Subject: Re: Searching a large number of sites

sboss64

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Hello Daniel,

I believe Ted already answered your question before, with this reply:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/message/2302

Did you see that reply?
Jay

Daniel wrote:

We want to use boss to search an index of 900+ websites. We get errors about the length of the HTTP request when we attempt this. Is there any way for BOSS to search a large number of sites in a single request?

#2319

From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 6:53 pm
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

sboss64

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Hello craigrushforth,

Regarding #1 below: I wouldn't be able to help you with this, but hopefully somebody else here can.
Regarding #2 below: Yes, you would need to take care of this yourself, in your php code. BOSS does not have an API parameter / ability to accomplish this.

Thanks,
Jay

craigrushforth@... wrote:

I have just set the boss search on a site I am developing, using the WebAssist extension.

1. I would like to change the appearance of the returned keyword form to an alternative css tag.

2. I noticed that if the search word is matched exactly, it is returned in the result set, but part of the word does not.
is there a setting to add wildcards to the search parameter, or do i need to do this in php.

Thanks for any help

#2318

From: "Frank" <frankarturi@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 6:25 pm
Subject: 1000 links limit

frankarturi

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Hello,
BOSS services called se_inlink is limited to 1000 links?
thank you for your answer.
Frank

#2317

From: "Izzy Bromberg" <izzy.bromberg@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 6:01 am
Subject: RE: New to BOSS - and I have some problems

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Hello,

Thanks. It was a mistake on my part that caused my error. I did not encode the web sites used in the search properly and therefore the query did not work.

Thanks,

Izzy

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ted Drake
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:40 PM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ysearchboss] New to BOSS - and I have some problems

What host are you using?

Is it Dreamhost?

They may not allow you to make a direct call in your php code. You may need to use a curl request instead of just loading it.

It would help if you include the request you are making, but delete your app id from the example.

I use this function to get the request and turn it into simplexml

function My_simplexml_load_file($URL)

{

$ch = curl_init($URL);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$xml = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($ch));

curl_close($ch);

return $xml;

}

Good luck

Ted DRAKE

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Izzy
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:36 PM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] New to BOSS - and I have some problems

Hello All,
I just starting getting into BOSS - and made some nice progress. However, I am now stuck.

I build a search and issue it through BOSS via PHP and get back no results, HOWEVER if I copy the same BOSS search to my browser window I get results.

What gives?

I am using PHP and JSON.

Thanks,
Izzy