BOSS Hacks - an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog » Other APIs http://www.bosshacks.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Searchmonkey data is now much easier in BOSS http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=173 SearchMonkeyBOSS’s integration with SearchMonkey provides great structural data. However, it’s a bit tricky to get results filled with the appropriate data. This blog post from the search team introduces the new SearchMonkey query filters: Accessing SearchMonkey Structured Objects via BOSS.

The SearchMonkey team has been encouraging developers to use our structured data to build semantic Web applications ever since we partnered with BOSS. Using the BOSS API, you can access SearchMonkey structured objects.

To restrict the result set to pages with SearchMonkey objects, just add “searchmonkey:<objecttype>” to your query. The result set from BOSS will only contain URLs that have objects of that type.
Accessing SearchMonkey Structured Objects via BOSS

Here’s a list of SearchMonkey filters:

  • searchmonkey:video – restricts the result set to videos.
  • searchmonkey:product – restricts the result set to products.
  • searchmonkey:local – restricts the result set to local businesses.
  • searchmonkey:event – restricts the result set to events.
  • searchmonkey:document – restricts the result set to presentations, spreadsheets, and similar document formats.
  • searchmonkey:discussion – restricts the result set to blogs and forums.
  • searchmonkey:game – restricts the result set to Flash games.

Here’s a sample search request for iPhone products:
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/iphone+searchmonkey:product?appid=insert-your-appid&format=xml&start=0&count=15&view=keyterms,searchmonkey_rdf

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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html/feed 0 Tour de Sound – a music search engine http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:13:31 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=167 Yahoo! BOSSTour de Sound is a music search engine that mashes Yahoo! BOSS with Amazon‘s associate service. It allows you to search for music and then visit a resource page that uses Amazon to provide a sample of the song and easy access to download the music.

As a side note, Tour de Sound also uses the YUI Grids to quickly build the layout and design for the site. Save time and effort by using this Grids Builder to layout out your next site.

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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html/feed 0 Accentuate your results with Netflix http://www.bosshacks.com/relevancy-netflix-api-boss.html http://www.bosshacks.com/relevancy-netflix-api-boss.html#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 19:10:57 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=49 Netflix, the DVD rental company has announced a new series of APIs that open their catalog to developers. Visit the Netflix Developer Section for more information.

This could be used to augment BOSS search results for sites that explore movies, travel, popular culture, and more. It’s worth noting Netflix’s history of innovative user interfaces and two amazingly talented people they grabbed from Yahoo!: Bill Scott and Kent Brewster. These two will keep the Netflix APIs and hackability interesting.

Kent Brewster gives you more information in his blog post Netflix Catalog API Explorer.

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