APIs and Web Services

Advertising & Business Services

APT from Yahoo!

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.

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.

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 for trip planning and sharing, and ratings/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.

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 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.

My Yahoo!

Distribute your YAP applications on My Yahoo!

Utilities & Developer Tools

BrowserPlus™

Add desktop-like functionality to web-based apps. Extend the browser programming environment with new JavaScript APIs that afford secure access to desktop facilities.

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.