Let’s BOSS

search and geo

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

BOSS is Build your own search service

Provides APIs To our Search

database

TO BUILD your own powerful

Search applications

BOSS allows you to search over

Web, images, news & Blogs

BOSS Pricing

Free for building your hacks!!

BOSS uses OAuth for security

Code : https://github.com/sourind/hacku/

Get a FREE consumer key and

secret

http://hackyourworld.org/hacku/

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

3. Copy This url

1. Select yql query 2. Select output format

Finding images of “The Dark Knight Rises”

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and service="images"

and ck="..." and secret="..."

Finding “The Dark Knight Rises” in IMDB, movies.yahoo.com

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Spell Check and Correction select * from boss.search where q="The Dirk

Knight Rises" and service="spelling" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Finding news on “The Dark Knight Rises”

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and service="news" and

ck="..." and secret="..."

Lets See it in Action!

Query Cheatsheet •  Find images of “The Dark Knight Rises” •  select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight

Rises" and service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."

•  Find reviews of “The Dark Knight Rises”

•  select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The Dark Knight Rises" and service="web" and ck="..." and secret="…"

•  Search for Avatar but not the movie: •  select * from boss.search where q="Avatar -movie" and

ck="..." and secret="... "

•  Search pdfs of “The Dark Knight Rises”

•  select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Query Cheatsheet •  Find all the news of “The Dark Knight Rises” •  select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight

Rises" and service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."

•  Get long abstracts in the results

•  select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"

•  Retrieve 51-100 results of the query •  select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight

Rises" and start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

EXAMPLES

duckduckgo.com

GEO

Time Traveler

Paper: Automatic Construction of Travel Itineraries using Social Breadcrumbs

Geo Examples •  Geoplanet: http://y.ahoo.it/164Q9

Select * from geo.places where text="sfo”

•  PlaceFinder: http://yhoo.it/VNvKqV Select * from google.geocoding where q="40.714224,-73.961452”

•  PlaceSpotter: http://y.ahoo.it/HmOeY

Infer location from IP & Content

•  Get flickr images of Kolkata, searching by geo http://y.ahoo.it/3byUF

Resources •  Yahoo! BOSS api

developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/

•  Oauth sample code https://github.com/sourind/hacku/

•  Consumer key and secret hackyourworld.org/hacku/