Download - BOSS around the web
Saurabh Sahni YDN Developer, Hacker, Evangelist
BOSS AROUND THE WEB
Jai SanthoshYDN Engineer, Hacker
http://twitter.com/jaisanthhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sumrow/1267682594/sizes/l/
BOSS IS BUILD YOUR OWN SEARCH SERVICE
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
PROVIDES APIS
TO OUR SEARCHDATA STORES
TO BUILD YOUR OWNPOWERFUL
SEARCH APPLICATIONS
BOSS allows you to search over
Web, images, news & Blogs
You can even monetize yourapplications using Search Ads
from BOSS
What can be done on top of BOSS?• Blend and re-rank search results
• Your own look and feel
• Mix it with other APIs
BOSS Pricing
Free for build your hacks!!
Where do I start?
BOSS uses OAuth for security
Get a FREE consumer key and secret
http://hackyourworld.org/hacku/
Searching “The Dark Knight Rises”
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 Dark 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="..."
Content Analysis
select * from contentanalysis.analyze where text="Yahoo! kicks off HackU at IIT Bombay"
Content Analysis from a URL
select * from contentanalysis.analyze where url="http://www.cnn.com/"
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
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More Resources• Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss • BOSS Technical Documentation:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/
• YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql • Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com • Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com • oAuth: http://oauth.net/ • Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/ • Open Data: http://theinfo.org • Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/
Questions??http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/4119729692/
• http://slideshare.net/jaisanth
• http://twitter.com/jaisanth
• https://github.com/jaisanth/
Thanks!!