Mar 23, 2005
Yahoo! Web Services news over RSS
Excited by the prospect of a reasonably usable search API being made available by Yahoo!, I’ve put together a small project that will create an dynamic RSS 2.0 feed based on the Yahoo! News Search hooks.
The feed validates nicely, and also deals well with the tests created by Unpolluted; it has GZip handling, HTTP Expires, Last-Modified, ETag and If-None-Match support built-in.
The usage is very simple – point your aggregator of choice at http://undercrank.com/yahoo/rss/news/KEYWORD, replacing KEYWORD with your appropriate search term. Some examples are given below:
I’ll release the source when I’ve tidied it up a bit so you can host it on your own boxes, but feel free to try it here for the time being.
Cool stuff, Mark.
How can i put yahoo/msn/google news related to the feild of design & Architecture and 3d animation on my blog? what code i have to add to my blog ?
Please tell me , i m Xml-Novice
Amit:
You could use Mark’s tool to create an RSS file of a Yahoo search related to architecture or 3d animation. Then you could ingest and transform this RSS file using some of the built-in RSS tools of Movable Type or WordPress. But you need to be using those blogging tools first…
Blandad l
Mark, do you have a release date on code?