My Web APIs from Yahoo! Search

My Web is a personal search engine from Yahoo! Search which enables you to save web pages (including full-text cached copies), share them, add notes to them, tag URLs, share tags publicly and use the power of Yahoo! Search to re-find them instantly.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Read the online documentation and FAQs.

2. Get an Application ID

   To access Site Explorer APIs from Yahoo! Search web services, you will need to get an application ID. Like a browser's User-Agent string, the Application ID uniquely identifies your application and has no effect on rate limiting.

3. Download the SDK

   The development kit includes BSD licensed examples and libraries for various languages: Perl, Python and PHP, Java, JavaScript, and Flash.

My Web 2.0 Web Services

Overview

The public functions of My Web 2.0 are available through the Web services API. These are:

• Url Search

  Lets you search for URLs that have been tagged by particular tags.

• Tag Search

  Lets you search for tags, including views by URL and by user.

• Related Tags

  Lets you find tags that appear together on URLs.

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 Services for My Web are discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.