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Yahoo Search API Fixes

I have uploaded a new version of my Yahoo Search API for C# & VB.Net. It fixes the following two issues:

1. I updated a number of functions due to a missing "=" in some of the request parameters. This may result in altered behaviour as the parameters will no longer be ignored by Yahoo. The functions and parameters are listed below:

ImageSearch - Results
LocalSearch - Results
NewsSearch - Type
VideoSearch - Type

2. TestHarness was using the value "all" for the format parameter rather than "any". This was causing the Yahoo Web Service to return a Bad Request error. I have now corrected this.

The new code can be downloaded by visiting my Download page.

Comments

Re: Yahoo Search API Fixes

Nice work and thanks for sharing.

How did you get XSD.EXE to parse the response schema ? When I try this, I get the error: Undefined data type: 'token'.

C:\Projects>xsd LocalSearchResponse.xml /classes
Microsoft (R) Xml Schemas/DataTypes support utility
[Microsoft (R) .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.42]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Error: There was an error processing 'LocalSearchResponse.xml'.
- Undefined data type: 'token'.


Henry

Comment from Henry Bruce at Thursday, 30 March 2006 01:43AM (GMT+00)

Re: Yahoo Search API Fixes


This is great info.
I spent time looking for samples using VB.NET including the overture yahoo search marketing forums and account support but had little success.
With the google adwords api, I built a web service and used the url to link in the .xml
Should I do the same with the two .xsd documents request/response and link the file path. I am not sure how to import the .xsd and use it as a web service so that all the classes and members are available within the namespace to program with.

Any help is appreciated, thanks
you can email me at rmehrer@netshops.com




Comment from Ron at Tuesday, 25 April 2006 04:30PM (GMT+00)

Re: Yahoo Search API Fixes

Suposing you have a new schema X.xsd you would need to run it through the xsd.exe tool to generate the classes required. The command line would look something like this:

xsd.exe schemas\v1\X.xsd /c /l:vb /namespace:Yahoo.API.NewResponse /out:Yahoo.API

This will generate a .vb file with the new classes in. You will need to include this in your project and add a function to the YahooSearchService class. Simply copy one of the other functions and change the namespace, request url and parameters.

Comment from Martin Brown at Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:19AM (GMT+00)

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