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The output of this method will be XML which you will have to parse through looking for items such as ResultSet and totalResultsAvailable.
public static String returnYahooXML(String APPID, String domain, Int32 results, Int32 operation, Boolean omitnInlinks)
{
StringBuilder urlBuffer = null;if (operation == 0)
urlBuffer = new StringBuilder(” http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData”);
else
{
urlBuffer = new StringBuilder(“http://api.search.yahoo.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/pageData”);
}urlBuffer.Append(“?appid=”);
urlBuffer.Append(APPID);
urlBuffer.Append(“&query=”);
urlBuffer.Append(domain);
urlBuffer.Append(“&results=”);
urlBuffer.Append(results);
if (operation == 0)
{
if(omitnInlinks)
{
urlBuffer.Append(“&omit_inlinks=”);
urlBuffer.Append(domain);
}
}try
{HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(urlBuffer.ToString());
req.ContentType = “text/xml;charset=\”utf-8\”";
req.Accept = “text/xml”;
req.Method = “POST”;
Stream stm = req.GetRequestStream();stm.Close();
WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
stm = resp.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader r = new StreamReader(stm);
return r.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//error code here
}
return String.Empty;}
