As Toby Elliott said "The category parameter is there for you to feed
ids returned by your more general queries", which means that first you
get the results, then extract the categories from this results, and
then create a more specific query with the categories id returned. I
agree that this is not really helpful, a list of categories ids should
definitely be accessible. Please?

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--- In yws-search-general@yahoogroups.com, "cscooper2000" <clark@...>
wrote:
>
> Yes, it's pretty ridiculous that the documentation states that we can
> pass a category or list of categories as a parameter to the search
> query, but there is no way to discover the ids for any categories. So
> this is a useless parameter, right?
>
> Smart, Yahoo!
>
>
> --- In yws-search-general@yahoogroups.com, "mcgWest"
> <todd_mcgregor@> wrote:
> >
> > It's definitely a long list, but I'm trying to build an app that
> > allows users to browse categories of information. Any chance you could
> > post the ids for the top 2 or 3 levels of categories? Or maybe even
> > publish an XML doucment with the caetgory names and ids. Just a
thought.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --- In yws-search-general@yahoogroups.com, Toby Elliott <telliott@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:19 PM, mcgWest wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a list of all the category ids for version 3 of the local
> > > > search API?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your question. There is no list - it is very long!
> > >
> > > The category parameter is there for you to feed ids returned by
your
> > > more general queries.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Toby Elliott
> > > Yahoo! Web Services
> > >
> >
>