Site Explorer APIs from Yahoo! Search

Gain a unique perspective on your online presence

Yahoo! Site Explorer APIs provide access to information about your site from the Yahoo! Site Explorer service.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Read the online documentation and FAQs.

2. Get an Application ID

   To access Site Explorer APIs from Yahoo! Search web services, you will need to get an application ID. Like a browser's User-Agent string, the Application ID uniquely identifies your application and has no effect on rate limiting.

3. Download the SDK

   The development kit includes BSD licensed examples and libraries for various languages: Perl, Python and PHP, Java, JavaScript, and Flash.

Site Explorer Web Services

Overview

These APIs help you better understand your traffic and usage -- querying for the pages in the Yahoo! index and the sites linking into a site. They will be useful to anyone looking for a good grasp of who is linking to you and to create an effective alternative to easily-spammed trackbacks.

• Inlink Data

  Shows the pages from other sites linking in to a page.

• Page Data

  Shows a list of all pages belonging to a domain in the Yahoo! index.

• Ping

  Allows you to notify Yahoo! of changes to your site. No appid required

• Update Notification

  Allows you to notify Yahoo! of changes to your site.

Rate Limits

The Site Explorer APIs are limited to 5,000 queries per IP address per day. See information on rate limiting.

Terms of Use

Please see our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Site Explorer service returns the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.

Support & Community

The Site Explorer APIs are discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.