YDN: Everything for Developers
The Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) is Yahoo!'s central resource for
developers and partners. YDN offers developer tools, APIs, web
services, and resources that help developers build rich web
experiences, integrate key data sources, and drive traffic.
Developer Tools & Utilities
A standards-based language, easy-to-use toolkit, and a seamless path to thousands of mobile devices.
Create rich web apps with desktop capabilities. Extend the browser with open source JavaScript APIs and secure desktop access.
Tools to help build self-contained desktop widgets with the Konfabulator SDK.
Information about the Apache Hadoop project and the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop.
Little helpers for applications that consume web services.
A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Tools for building widgets that run on consumer electronics devices. Find out how you can participate.
Query, filter, and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond.
A Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page performance based on best practices.
A set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications.
APIs and Web Services
Advertising & Business Services
Interact with our advertising platform and ad exchange-based technology.
Create and manage campaigns, pull reports, set bids and more. All exposed via SOAP-based Web Services.
Authentication & Sign In
Registered Yahoo! users can sign on for your services without having to complete yet another registration process.
Allow users to sign on to your services in a secure and standardized way.
Easy delivery of a simplified login experience for your users.
Communication
Access and update contacts in the Yahoo! Address Book.
Build applications to list messages, display folders, compose and send messages.
Content
Timely data on finance topics including top stories, most viewed, and company ticker symbol delivered via RSS.
Post, edit, refresh and delete public and private job ads. Use the API to manage your job ads in real-time.
Query the MyBlogLog social network for metadata associated with user and site profiles.
Content for a variety of products and services – thousands of feeds in total.
Access millions of product listings and thousands of merchants.
User-generated event and location data for your applications and websites.
Maps & Location Based Services
Create location-aware applications and services.
A resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
Bring location-based information and user-created content to your website.
Map APIs allow embedding of rich, interactive maps.
Access real-time traffic alert information for a given location.
Identify, disambiguate, and extract places from unstructured textual content.
Get up-to-date weather information for your location.
Photos, Audio & Video
Tap into this highly interactive photo-sharing community that uploads and shares photos and tags.
Create an embedded player for each audio link on your site, or, with one click, turn any page into a playlist.
Access the Yahoo! Music catalog of artists, albums, tracks, videos, ratings and more.
Search
Provide user-generated advice on any topic, from within your own site.
BOSS
(Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services
platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds
of millions of users across the Web.
Search delicious bookmarks and tags or see when a specific user last posted.
Use structured data to enhance your Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant, and visually appealing.
Access data from Yahoo!'s web and vertical search content including news, site, image, and local search content.
Social Applications & Services
Read a user's Contacts data (with OAuth permissions).
Access shared and public profile data for users and their connections.
Read and write user's status data.
Read, write, and delete a user's activity updates.
Innovate and build powerful applications - we'll provide the distribution.
Distribute your YAP applications on My Yahoo!.
Libraries & Best Practices
The
ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications (ASTRA) is a collection of
Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits, and utilities
developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers.
Interaction
patterns that describe and solve commonly occuring problems within a
specific context, addressing a specific online user need or behavior.
Best
practices for improving web performance, including information and
tools such as YSlow that focus on the rules for high performance web
sites.
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