Connect to Yahoo search

hi

is there a way that i can send a word to yahoo search from my application and get the results displayed on my application

thanks

Fluffmeister
With Google you need to apply for a license key to use its API...
Kablambo
The search string for Yahoo is:

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search p=

The search criteria needs to go after the '=' (equals sign)

You could use a textbox that sends the above & you can use the HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse to return the information to your application in a second multiline textbox

The Request/Response mentioned above will return raw HTML though, as far as I am aware

I hope this helps
Ping Wang
Yes, but depending on how you wish to use the service it might be a viable option. I would also caution Sami in culling the search results from Yahoo without also entering into a similar agreement with that service.

Cheers,

-Paul
Jim_Fort_Worth

If you're interested in using Google, you could query their search service directly using SOAP.

See "Web Search API"
http://www.google.com/apis/index.html

-Paul
Sunderth_MS
The HTTPWebRequest/Response stream objects will return only raw HTML.

You have to render HTML urself (like a browser ). U could use some components for that.
or if u want only the search result texts and links and not the exact HTML ouput. Then u can use Regex to extract all the results with the hyperlinks and display it in ur own way.
Connect to Yahoo search