yahoo-answers

Github Project: http://github.com/felipekk/yahoo-answers-gem

Requirements

This gem requires Eric Hodel and David N. Welton's yahoo gem:

http://github.com/davidw/yahoo-gem

Also check out their Yahoo Web Search and Yahoo Location Search gem:

http://github.com/davidw/yahoo-search-gem

Description

This is a simple implementation of version 1 of Yahoo! Answers API. It allows you to search Yahoo! Answers, returning the questions found and it's answers.

Using Yahoo::Answers

First you'll need a Yahoo Application ID. You can register for one here:

http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application

Then simply create a Yahoo::Answers object with your API Key and start searching for answers:

require 'rubygems'
require 'yahoo/answers'

ya = Yahoo::Answers.new api_key

results = ys.search(:query => 'cars')

results.each do |result|
    puts result.inspect
end

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.
  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright (c) 2010 Felipe Koch. See LICENSE for details.