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My Web 2.0 Web Services: Tag Search

Searching for Tags

The Tag Search service lets you find tags that My Web 2.0 users have associated with URLs.

Request URL

http://search.yahooapis.com/MyWebService/V1/tagSearch

Request parameters

See information on constructing REST queries

Parameter Value Description
appid string (required) The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
url string If specified, only returns tags associated with this url.
yahooid string A Yahoo! username. If one is specified, only tags by that user will be returned.
sort popularity (default), tag, or date The field by which the results should be sorted.
reverse_sort 0 (default) or 1 If set to 1, reverses the sort order. This will not have any effect on a popularity sort.
results integer: default 10, max 50 The number of results to return.
start integer: default 1 The starting result position to return (1-based). The finishing position (start + results - 1) cannot exceed 1000.
output string: xml (default), json, php The format for the output. If json is requested, the results will be returned in JSON format. If php is requested, the results will be returned in Serialized PHP format.
callback string The name of the callback function to wrap around the JSON data. The following characters are allowed: A-Z a-z 0-9 . [] and _. If output=json has not been requested, this parameter has no effect. More information on the callback can be found in the Yahoo! Developer Network JSON Documentation.

Sample Request Url: http://search.yahooapis.com/MyWebService/V1/tagSearch?appid=YahooDemo&yahooid=ysearchmyweb2&results=2

Response fields

The schema document for this service response is located at http://search.yahooapis.com/MyWebService/V1/TagSearchResponse.xsd

Field Description
ResultSet Contains all of the query responses. Has attributes:

  • totalResultsAvailable: The number of query matches in the database.
  • totalResultsReturned: The number of query matches returned. This may be lower than the number of results requested if there were fewer total results available.
  • firstResultPosition: The position of the first result in the overall search.
Result Contains each individual response.
Tag The value of the tag.
Frequency The number of times the tag has been used publicly. If the query is filtered by yahooid (and/or URL), it will return the number of times the tag has been used by that user (and/or on that URL).
Date The last time this tag was used, as filtered by the user and the url.

Sample response

The following is a sample response for tags submitted by the user ysearchmyweb2:


Rate Limits

Each My Web service is limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day and to noncommercial use. See information on rate limiting.

Terms of Use

Please see our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Support & Community

All web wervices for My Web are discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.

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