Flash-enabled feeds at Yahoo!

Want some more content for your flash applications? With newly-added crossdomain policy files you can now pull in many of our APIs and RSS feeds into your Flash content.

Below is the complete list of current servers and feeds available. There are several more coming, but if you have any special requests, let me know. For information on all developer programs at Yahoo!, be sure to check out the entire Yahoo! Developer Network.

Thanks to Mike for getting us moving on this and thanks to the 20+ Yahoo!s that have gotten the files up on all the servers!

APIs:

  • api.shopping.yahoo.comAPI docs
    Product search, Product Reviews, and Merchant Info
  • api.search.yahoo.comAPI docs
    web, news, video, audio, image and local search plus keyword extraction (very cool feature).
  • upcoming.orgAPI docs
    Local events search. Upcoming.org is a recent Yahoo! acquisition
  • flickr.comAPI docs
    Photo search, upload, and tagging

RSS feeds (many are configurable)

  • shopping.yahoo.comRSS feeds listing
    Common pre-generated shopping requests
  • ask.yahoo.comRSS feed
    Recent Ask Yahoo! answers
  • buzz.yahoo.comRSS feeds listing
    Top Yahoo! searches overall and by topic
  • news.yahoo.comRSS feeds listing
    Current news by category (use the Search API for custom news search results)
  • videogames.yahoo.comFeature articles, News by game platform
    Articles about commercial gaming in general and by game system (go to platform sub-page at videogames.yahoo.com for platform code)
  • picks.yahoo.comRSS feed
    Recent Yahoo! web picks
  • travel.yahoo.comConfigurable RSS feed
    ranking lists for hotels and restaurants by travel destinations (to use this, it is easiest to go to travel.yahoo.com select a destination and the type of thing you are looking for like a hotel or a restaurant and get the URL from the orange XML button)
  • rss.groups.yahoo.comConfigurable RSS feed
    Recent post list by group (to use, just swap out the group name)
  • weather.yahoo.comRSS feeds Docs
    configurable weather data
  • sports.yahoo.comRSS feed listing
    sports articles by sport and by team

7 thoughts on “Flash-enabled feeds at Yahoo!

  1. hi Justin, love your blog, the crossdomain.xml for the weather rss seems to be missing, it used to work… but now it doesn’t – are there any work arounds for this?

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