Yahoo Developer Network - outstanding API services
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I have to hand it to Yahoo, they’ve really outdone themselves with the Yahoo Developer Network. These folks designed a great site and they made sure to pay a great deal of attention to detail. They have source code examples in all of the popular languages, and their documentation is outstanding. Which of Yahoo’s Web Services can you interface with? Almost all of them!
Even the Yahoo acquired properties like Flickr and del.ici.us are well represented here. Yahoo has attempted to use a unified interface, where applicable, and accessing the data is relatively easy, depending on your programming knowledge.
. Of particular interest is the Yahoo! User Interface Library, which can help you build a website with a unified user interface using Yahoo! code.
The amount of code available is so immense, that there’s no point attempting to cover it a short summary like this one. Instead, I encourage you to investigate the page and see some of the APIs available. I wrote a short application today using Siteexplorer which went together surprisingly easily, considering it was the first time I used the API. The documentation and example code is very straightforward. I plan on covering more uses of the API in the future, but I figured I’d introduce this incredible resource to anyone who hadn’t heard of it yet.
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