#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# This code comes from http://ruby-it.org/pages/Usare+le+Yahoo%21+API
# Check the page for copyright notice and explanations



>> require 'open-uri'
=> true
>> URL="http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData?query=%s&a
ppid=%s"
=> "http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData?query=%s&appid
=%s"
>> open(URL%["http://ruby-it.org","MioMagicoAppID"]).read

=> "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><ResultSet xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.
w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns=\"urn:yahoo:srch\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"u
rn:yahoo:srch http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/InlinkDataResponse.xsd\" totalResultsAvailable=\"241\" firstResultPosition=\"1\" totalResultsRe
turned=\"50\"><Result><Title>Planet Apache</Title><Url>http://www.planetapache.o
.......

>> obj=XSD::Mapping.xml2obj(open(URL%["http://ruby-it.org","riffappid"]).read)
=> #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x283892c {urn:yahoo:srch}Result=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Ob
ject:0x28386f8 {urn:yahoo:srch}Title="Planet Apache" {urn:yahoo:srch}Url="http:/
/www.planetapache.org/" {urn:yahoo:srch}ClickUrl="http://www.planetapache.org/">
...

>> obj.methods(false)

=> ["xmlattr_totalResultsReturned", "xmlattr_totalResultsAvailable=", "xmlattr_s
chemaLocation", "xmlattr_totalResultsReturned=", "xmlattr_firstResultPosition",
"xmlattr_schemaLocation=", "result", "xmlattr_totalResultsAvailable", "xmlattr_f
irstResultPosition=", "result="]

>> puts "Ci sono %s risultati"% obj.xmlattr_totalResultsAvailable
Ci sono 241 risultati
>> puts "il primo link viene da %s" % obj.result[0].url
il primo link viene da http://www.planetapache.org/