YDN: Your Gateway to Yahoo! Services
The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups. Yahoo! APIs let developers tap into Yahoo!'s world-class data and infrastructure to help power their businesses and integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and interesting place for everyone.
Libraries & Best Practices
ASTRA
The ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers
Design Pattern Library
Interaction patterns that describe and solve commonly occuring problems within a specific context, addressing a specific online user need or behavior.
Exceptional Performance
Best practices for improving web performance, including research and build tools such as YSlow that focus on the rules for high performance web sites.
Hadoop
Information about Yahoo!s involvement in the Apache Hadoop project which develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.
l10n & i18n
Practices that make it easy to set up templates and translate your website.
Security
Best practices and guidelines to help you protect your users' trust in your application.
Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
A set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML, and AJAX.
APIs and Web Services
Advertising & Business Services
APT
Interact with our advertising platform and ad exchange-based technology.
Y! Search Marketing
Create and manage campaigns, pull reports, set bids and more. All exposed via SOAP-based Web Services.
Communication
Address Book
Access and update contacts in the Yahoo! Address Book.
Mail
Build applications to list messages, display folders, compose and send messages.
Messenger
Create add-ons with collaborative features that can run inside Yahoo! Messenger.
Content
Finance
RSS feeds deliver timely data on finance topics including top stories, most viewed, and company ticker symbol.
HotJobs
Post, edit, refresh and delete public and private job ads. Use the API to manage your job ads in real-time.
Kelkoo
Create applications that provide comparison shopping and product search functionality.
Maps & Location Based Services
Fire Eagle
Create location-aware applications and services.
GeoPlanet
A resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
Local
Bring location-based information and user-created content to your website.
Photos, Audio & Video
Flickr
Tap into this highly interactive photosharing community that uploads and shares photos and tags.
Live Video Broadcast
Create your own broadcast channel, or display, hack, and mash up live video streams on your website or client.
Media Player
Create an embedded player for each audio link on your site, or, with one click, turn any page into a playlist.
Music API
Get access to the Yahoo! Music catalog of artists, albums, tracks, videos, ratings and more
Search
Answers
Provide user-generated advice on any topic, from within your own site.
BOSS
BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.
delicious
Search delicious bookmarks and tags or see when a specific user last posted.
SearchMonkey
Reach tens of millions of Yahoo! Search users by using structured data to enhance your Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant, and visually appealing.
Y! Search SDK
Libraries and sample code for accessing Yahoo! Search Web Service APIs from various languages, including Flash, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, JavaScript, C#, VB and .Net.
Y! Search Web Services
Access data from the wide variety of web and vertical search content available via Yahoo!, including Audio, News, Site, Image, Web and Local search content.
Social Applications & Services
Contacts
Read a user's Contacts data from Yahoo! Contacts.
Social Directory
Access shared and public profile data for users and their connections.
Status
Read and write user's status data.
Utilities & Developer Tools
Konfabulator Widgets
Tools to help build self-contained desktop Widgets.
r3
Save and load translation data in XLIFF format.
Mobile Widgets
Build Mobile widgets with a standards-based language, easy-to-use toolkit, and a seamless path to hundreds of devices.
Network Time
Little helpers for applications that consume web services.
Pipes
A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
YQL
Query, filter, and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond.
Language Centers
Recent Blog Articles
Yahoo Developer Network at Future of Web Apps London
October 11, 2008
Opening up Yahoo! to Users and Developers - the Yahoo! keynote at Future of web apps in London
October 10, 2008
Writing a LinkedIn API library using Yahoo! BOSS web search
October 9, 2008
The ever pulsing cyber-brain at Yahoo!
October 8, 2008


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