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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.

Authentication & Sign In

BBAuth

Registered Yahoo! users can sign on for your services without having to complete yet another registration process.

OAuth

Allow users to sign on to your services in a secure and standardized way.

OpenID

Easy delivery of a simplified login experience for your users.

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.

MyBlogLog

Build social networking services on demand. Create badges and access user activity data.

RSS Feeds

Content for a variety of products and services – thousands of feeds in total.

Shopping

Access millions of product listings and thousands of merchants.

Travel

Build applications that allow trip planning and sharing, airfare comparisons, and ratings and reviews.

Upcoming

Add user-generated event and location data to your applications and websites.

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.

Maps

Flash, Ajax and Map Image APIs allow embedding of rich, interactive maps.

Traffic

Access real-time traffic alert information for a given location.

Weather

Get up-to-date weather information for your location.

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.

Updates

Read, write, and delete a user's activity updates.

YAP

Innovate and build powerful applications - we'll provide the distribution.

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.

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