BOSS team? Can someone please help us out here?

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "toone_town" <nathan.toone@...> wrote:
>
> That's the problem we're seeing too - all we ever get back is responsecode:200
- no advertising results at all.

> -Nathan
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "rivky.arnstein" <feivi@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We've toone_town's generous help we've been able to receive the ad.token.
But when requesting ads, we're just getting
> >
> > render_ads({"bossresponse":{"responsecode":"200"}})
> >
> > I've added a domain name to our IP address in hosts.
> >
> > Can the problem be that we are located overseas?
> >
> > Please advise
> >
>

Nathan,

Cool, thanks. This can definitely help us with finetuning the client-side part
of things. But as long as I don't understand why I'm not getting ads from Yahoo,
I can't be sure that I'll have any ads when deploying.

I'm hoping someone from the Yahoo team will come along and help soon...


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "toone_town" <nathan.toone@...> wrote:
>
> I just posted a script at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/message/4480 that may help you as
well.
>
> -Nathan
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "toone_town" <nathan.toone@> wrote:
> >
> > That's the problem we're seeing too - all we ever get back is
responsecode:200 - no advertising results at all.
> >
> > I've suggested that there be some kind of "testing" mode to operate in - so
that we are able to develop advertisements.  See the thread at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/message/4460 for details of what
I'm looking for.
> >
> > Hopefully, some time today, I'll find some time to try and hack together
some static files for testing - as I've mentioned in that post.
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "rivky.arnstein" <feivi@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We've toone_town's generous help we've been able to receive the ad.token.
But when requesting ads, we're just getting
> > >
> > > render_ads({"bossresponse":{"responsecode":"200"}})
> > >
> > > I've added a domain name to our IP address in hosts.
> > >
> > > Can the problem be that we are located overseas?
> > >
> > > Please advise
> > >
> >
>

I have found that I don't get ads if I go to "http://localhost" - I have to
actually add in a "longer" domain to my hosts file (i.e.
http://localhost.example.com) which points to 127.0.0.1.

I have also found that depending on my search term, I don't get ads (this makes
sense) - for example, I don't ever seem to get ads for a search term of "test"

I found that I don't get ads when I am at my office.  I don't know why this
would be.  If I run my browser through a proxy at my home, I get ads - through
my office, I get no ads.  I understand that some sort of geolocation is probably
going on (to give locally-relavent ads) - but my office isn't located too far
from my home.  I find it odd that I don't get ads in one location, but I get
them in another.

Perhaps you could try routing your requests through a proxy server located in a
different physical location than you are at? (I don't know how feasible such a
thing would be).

It would still be nice to hear from the BOSS team as to why these are different.
The script I uploaded helps for development purposes (making sure things are
laid out correctly, checking styling, mimicking the user experience, etc) - but
there isn't any sort of indication or "test" mode to show that everything is
*working* - but that it just isn't returning ads right now.  Perhaps a special
search term - something like "test yahoo boss ad api" could be coded on Yahoo!'s
side to always return 2 or 3 advertisements...just so that we can be assured
that things are working correctly.

I'm a testing freak - so it is frustrating to me to not be able to test my
application in a real-world environment...but, I guess that's just some of what
you have to give up when you work with a big company's API like this.  Overall,
I really like using the BOSS API - just a few things could be better
communicated/documented/tested.

-Nathan

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "rivky.arnstein" <feivi@...> wrote:
>
> BOSS team? Can someone please help us out here?
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "toone_town" <nathan.toone@> wrote:
> >
> > That's the problem we're seeing too - all we ever get back is
responsecode:200 - no advertising results at all.
>
> > -Nathan
> >
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "rivky.arnstein" <feivi@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > We've toone_town's generous help we've been able to receive the ad.token.
But when requesting ads, we're just getting
> > >
> > > render_ads({"bossresponse":{"responsecode":"200"}})
> > >
> > > I've added a domain name to our IP address in hosts.
> > >
> > > Can the problem be that we are located overseas?
> > >
> > > Please advise
> > >
> >
>

Hi, I am struggling to even get the basics to work... the documentmentation
doesnt seem to be very useful in this case so i am posting here.

I already got an API key, and it seems the documentation suggests a basic query
syntax (websearch) should look like:

http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web?q=yahoo&format=xml&appid=myid

however, it doesnt work. I keep getting the error:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.
The document tree is shown below.
<yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo="http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" xml:lang="en-US">
<yahoo:description>
Please provide valid credentials. OAuth
oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"
</yahoo:description>
</yahoo:error>


Any help please?

thanks

thanks

im really frustrated by so complicated authentication process...... I am almost,
but just cant cross the "oauth" signiature barrier.

my query gets an error saying signiture invalid. having read the page again I
realised that you have to use a "library" to generate that. im using java, and
the library linked to it: http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/java/core/,
doesnt look straightforward at all.

Could anyone give me some more hints?

thanks


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, Anshu Prateek <anshprat@...> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> You need to use oauth for signing your request.
> You will need a consumer key and secret for the same.
>
> Please check the documentation at:
>
> http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/oauth_model.html
>
> regards
> Anshu Prateek
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:27 PM, zzhang84 <ziqizhang.email@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi, I am struggling to even get the basics to work... the
> > documentmentation doesnt seem to be very useful in this case so i am
> > posting here.
> >
> > I already got an API key, and it seems the documentation suggests a basic
> > query syntax (websearch) should look like:
> >
> > http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web?q=yahoo&format=xml&appid=myid
> >
> > however, it doesnt work. I keep getting the error:
> >
> > This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated
> > with it. The document tree is shown below.
> > <yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo="http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng"
> > xml:lang="en-US">
> > <yahoo:description>
> > Please provide valid credentials. OAuth
> > oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"
> > </yahoo:description>
> > </yahoo:error>
> >
> > Any help please?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >
>

anyone having the same issue? Last week image results array was coming up empty,
now both image and web results are empty. what's going one with this service?

After taking our legacy (2008)ish zero-coding search services off-line in late
2011, today April 4th (2012) we introduce "Quicky" as in fast search!

Quicky is our new five minute zero-coding search solution, which allows
non-coders to crawl, color, size, copy and paste a powerful site search engine
to any website in a few minutes. Quicky is 100% cross-browser compatible and
offers the same scalability as our search API but with no programming involved.

Our next release will be adding Yahoo! BOSS spell-check and and a few other BOSS
enhancements.

Diego
BuildaSearch.com

Hi,
we have got an email from DDC about new Boss API

we understood that only Ads was updated.
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/message/4442)

We are trying migrate to the new ads api according to documentation
(http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/ad_service.html), but
there are some problems on the Steps 3,5.
The function fetch_ads responses with  {bossresponse: {responsecode: "200"}} and
no more data as on the step6. Request was generated by yis script.

How can we solve a problem?

I just signed up for BOSS and created a project.

I made the following selection when I created the project:

      Kind of Application: Client/Desktop

      Access Scopes: This app will only access public APIs, Web Services, or RSS
feeds.

Question: Can I call this client from a browser search bar?

I have tried using:

http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web?q=iphone&format=xml&appid=MYAPPID

But get the following error:

<yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo="http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" xml:lang="en-US">
<yahoo:description>
Please provide valid credentials. OAuth
oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"
</yahoo:description>
</yahoo:error>

To be clear, was hoping to access the API from either a browser or from CURL in
a DOS command window.

Is this possible?

Hello,

I'm using BOSS API.
Today after several queries a began to get this responce form your sever:
{"error": {"lang":"en-US","description":"Rate Limit Exceeded","detail":"Key has
exceeded its configured rate limit." }}

What is the Rate limit?
What is it equal to?
How can I raise the limit?

I didn't find info om account limitation.
I thought that I pay $0.80 per 1000 queries and I can search I much as I need.

Some questions about the news feed ...

1. Can I add additional news sources of my choosing to the search?
2. If the answer to #1 is yes, do they need to be RSS feeds?
3. Can results be customized to match the user's location?  For example, if a
user lives in Nob Hill, San Francisco, can the results be tailored to first find
those closest to that location or nearest zip code (and not all of San Franciso
or California)?

Thanks.

Are there many changes that need to be done.  I am not a developer and can't get
in contact with the person who created my Boss Search under v2.

I am looking for direction and I am trying to understand the differences between
the versions.

We are getting irrelevant results for some searches. Like
for:

+bengal +soap +scissors +cyanide +redundant +nerd +snorkel

There are many results that do not contain these terms like -
http://www.pandora.com, http://dx.doi.org/,
http://www.imesh.com/downloadmusic/?appid=427 and others

Also we searched for:

site:foodforbreastcancer.com +pickles

And we get 3 results out of 8 which do not contain pickles -
http://foodforbreastcancer.com/foods/sweet-potatoes,
http://foodforbreastcancer.com/foods/bell-peppers,
http://foodforbreastcancer.com/foods/watermelon

Could you please look into this and let us know?
Also could you please suggest ways in which we can make BOSS understand the
queries better?

We are sending query to BOSS like this:

http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web,spelling?count=30&filter=-porn&format=xml\
&oauth_callback=&oauth_consumer_key=XYZ&oauth_nonce=XYZ&oauth_signature=ABC&oaut\
h_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1333770840&oauth_version=1.0&q=KEYW\
ORD&start=0

Hello sir,

I have uploaded all your sample codes in to a server then add the keys in
sample.php and one another file. Then call sample.php its doesn't works.

Could you please help me.

Hi Vava,

You need to send us more information than "its doesn't works" for us to help
you. What are the specific error messages if any, what does the code return as a
message, etc.

Please send as much information that you can and we can then start reviewing for
solutions.

Cheers!
BOSS Team

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "vava" <ajoybabi@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello sir,
>
> I have uploaded all your sample codes in to a server then add the keys in
sample.php and one another file. Then call sample.php its doesn't works.
>
> Could you please help me.
>

Maybe is the unexplained "Key has exceeded its configured rate limit" ?

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Glenn" <conductor2472@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Vava,
>
> You need to send us more information than "its doesn't works" for us to help
you. What are the specific error messages if any, what does the code return as a
message, etc.
>
> Please send as much information that you can and we can then start reviewing
for solutions.
>
> Cheers!
> BOSS Team
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "vava" <ajoybabi@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello sir,
> >
> > I have uploaded all your sample codes in to a server then add the keys in
sample.php and one another file. Then call sample.php its doesn't works.
> >
> > Could you please help me.
> >
>

Hello Sir,

I get a black page when i call sample.php.
I didn't get any error messages.
Normally i have get ads when i am adding keys in sample.php and bossClient.php
files.

This is the code that i am getting from source
<html><head>
<script src="http://l.yimg.com/rv/boss_v2/js/yjs.js"></script>
<script src="http://www.prefrd.com/search/yahooads/partner.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">if (window.addEventListener) {
   var callback_func = function(evt) {
     if ('undefined' != typeof evt.target && "A" == evt.target.nodeName) {
       var url = evt.target.href;
       EBCallBackMessageReceivedCT2790392_129633547190125290(url);
     }
     return true;
   };
   var result = window.addEventListener('click', callback_func, true);
   var result = window.addEventListener('contextmenu', callback_func, true);
} else if (document.attachEvent) {
   var callback_func = function () {
     if ('undefined' != typeof event.srcElement &&'A' ==
event.srcElement.tagName) {
       var url = event.srcElement.href;
       EBCallBackMessageReceivedCT2790392_129633547190125290(url);
     }
     return true;
   };
   var result = document.attachEvent('onclick', callback_func);
   var result = document.attachEvent('oncontextmenu', callback_func);
}


</script></head>
<body>

<span id="ads">
</span>
<span id="news">


</span>

</body></html>


Could you please help me.

Thanks and Regards
Ajoybaby

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, Rahul Hampole <rhampole@...> wrote:
>
> If so please check out the explanation in the FAQ
(http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/sb_sponads_faqs.html)
Question #14
>
> Regards
> Rahul
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of andresm@...
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:05 AM
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Sample.php Not Works
>
>
>
> Maybe is the unexplained "Key has exceeded its configured rate limit" ?
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>,
"Glenn" <conductor2472@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Vava,
> >
> > You need to send us more information than "its doesn't works" for us to help
you. What are the specific error messages if any, what does the code return as a
message, etc.
> >
> > Please send as much information that you can and we can then start reviewing
for solutions.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > BOSS Team
> >
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>,
"vava" <ajoybabi@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello sir,
> > >
> > > I have uploaded all your sample codes in to a server then add the keys in
sample.php and one another file. Then call sample.php its doesn't works.
> > >
> > > Could you please help me.
> > >
> >
>

"totalresults" seems completely broken. I understand SEs cannot provide an
accurate account and instead give an approximation, but:

"electric car" in Google: 20M
"electric car" in Yahoo Search: 13M

"electric car" in Boss queried twenty times, once every 3 seconds:

"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 61600
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 62900
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 71600
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 70200
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 3620
"electric car" 66400
"electric car" 3620

I am a getting a lot of this today..any one else seeing it?