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…
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a77fae13005513c4a915c3a23a54e337
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.)
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.
Is this for site search though? I need general web search
Whoops, sorry – you need this instead:http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/46/xml_reference.html