Yahoo! Search Web Services

Yahoo! Search Web Services

Yahoo! Search offers an array of web services to provide you with access to our investments in search technology and infrastructure. Developers and site owners can also use web services to enhance Yahoo! Search results.

Using Yahoo! Search Technology On Your Site

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) and other web services give developers and start-ups access to our web-scale investments in search technology. See what's available and how to get started:

YAHOO! SEARCH BOSS

BOSS provides API access to Yahoo!'s web, news, and image search technology. Unlike other search APIs, developers can use BOSS technology with very few restrictions.

To get started, visit the BOSS page to learn more about what BOSS can do, apply for an API key, and read the documentation.

CONTENT ANALYSIS

Our recently released Content Analysis Web Service detects entities/concepts, categories, andrelationships within unstructured content. It ranks those detected entities/concepts by their overall relevance, resolves those if possible into Wikipedia pages, and annotates tags with relevant meta-data. Please give our content analysis service a try to enrich your content.

The Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a body of content. Note: This service will no longer be supported. Please migrate to the Content Analysis Web Service.