Help With Quackometer: Geek needed

At present, the 'Am I a Quack?' function is not working.

Part of how this function works is by using a Yahoo Pipe.

You can see the pipe here…

It would appear that Yahoo have made the Yahoo Search component unavailable after upgrading to the new V2 pipes engine.

So, my questions are:

1) Is this correct? Is there a way I can still use Yahoo Search (without paying lots of cash)?

2) Can anyone invent a pipe that takes a name as an input and returns a list of URLs of suspect web pages to analyse for quackiness. (You do not have to do the analysis – just return the URLs.)

3 comments

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_TheGeoff

Yahoo seem to be shutting all of their API bits and pieces – have you tried Google? It should be fairly simple to get an XML response for just about any query, see here: http://www.google.com/cse/docs/resultsxml.html#xmlResultsDTDYou shouldn’t even need to go via a third party, a bit of PHP should do the job.

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lecanardnoir

Is this for site search though? I need general web search

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_TheGeoff

Whoops, sorry – you need this instead:http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/46/xml_reference.html