Yahoo! Answers: Get Question Details

Request URL: GET

http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getQuestion

GET Request parameters

appid	string (required)	The application ID. See Application IDs for more information.
question_id	string	Unique ID of the question. Returned by questionSearch, getByUser, and getByCategory, or found on the Answers site in the request string under qid.
output	string: omit for default "xml"	Defines the output for the call. Accepted values are "xml", "json", "php", and "rss".
callback	string: default ""	If set, wraps the JSON object in call to the selected function. Only makes sense if output selected is JSON.

Sample Request Url: http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/getQuestion?appid=YahooDemo&question_id=1005120800412

Response fields

The schema document for this service response is located at http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/AnswerResponse.xsd

Field	Description
ResultSet	Contains details for the question listed.
Question	Contain the question. Has attributes: QuestionType: The unique question id type: The state of the question.
Subject	The subject of the question
Content	The full question
Date	Pre-formatted date when the question was submitted
Timestamp	Unix timestamp for when the question was submitted
Link	Link to the question
Category	The Category that the question is listed under. Has attribute: id: The unique category id
UserId	The unique User id
UserNick	The nickname of the user
UserPhotoURL	User photo URL.
NumAnswers	The number of answers to the question
NumComments	The number of comments on the question
ChosenAnswer	The answer chosen by the user as the best
ChosenAnswererId	The user id of the chosen answerer
ChosenAnswererNick	The nickname of the chosen answerer
ChosenAnswererTimestamp	The time the answer was submitted
ChosenAnswererAwardTimestamp	The time the answer was given an award
For each Answer in the Answers object:
Content	The text of the answer.
Reference	The reference URL.
Best	Any value for Best represents the fact the the asker of the question chose this as the best answer, and rated it from to 5. This only applies when the asker chooses it as best answer, and not when it comes to a vote.
UserId	The answerer's user ID
UserNick	The answerer's nickname
Date	The date the answer was posted.
Timestamp	The Unix timestamp corresponding to the date posted.

Sample response

The following is a sample response for the query cars:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<ResultSet
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="urn:yahoo:answers"
    xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:answers http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/AnswerResponse.xsd">
    <Question id="1005120800412" type="k">
        <Subject>Why is there no TITLE tag in the header of answers.yahoo.com?</Subject>
        <Content>Come on, you guys.  It's not valid HTML if there's no title. :) Correction: there's no TITLE tag in any of the edit screens, including the one I'm using to add these details. Sorry, my bad.</Content>
        <Date>2005-12-08 08:22:33</Date>
        <Timestamp>1134058953</Timestamp>
        <Link>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1005120800412</Link>
        <Category id="396545663">Programming &amp; Design</Category>
        <UserId>AA10001397</UserId>
        <UserNick>Kent Brewster</UserNick>
        <UserPhotoURL>http://us.f3.yahoofs.com/mingle/42004d2dz2fb914a9/profile/__tn_/cff9.jpg?mggKi2EBWSnDxloU</UserPhotoURL>
        <NumAnswers>2</NumAnswers>
        <NumComments>0</NumComments>
        <ChosenAnswer>I found the &lt;title&gt; element in the &lt;body&gt; section.  Strange, but I'm really happy to see that Yahoo is making the effort to get away from table-based layouts. Oh and another thing.  There are two &lt;h1&gt; elements, there should only be one per page.</ChosenAnswer>
        <ChosenAnswererId>AA10001432</ChosenAnswererId>
        <ChosenAnswererNick>awcole72</ChosenAnswererNick>
        <ChosenAnswerTimestamp>1134060717</ChosenAnswerTimestamp>
        <ChosenAnswerAwardTimestamp>1135873920</ChosenAnswerAwardTimestamp>
        <Answers>
            <Answer>
                <Content>I guess it is because the programmer worried to much about finishing the project then looking at the Title of the page... and the QA people did not notice it before release.</Content>
                <Reference></Reference>
                <Best></Best>
                <UserId>AA10002248</UserId>
                <UserNick>BroStanford</UserNick>
                <Date>2005-12-08 08:44:54</Date>
                <Timestamp>1134060294</Timestamp>
            </Answer>
            <Answer>
                <Content>I found the &lt;title&gt; element in the &lt;body&gt; section.  Strange, but I'm really happy to see that Yahoo is making the effort to get away from table-based layouts. Oh and another thing.  There are two &lt;h1&gt; elements, there should only be one per page.</Content>
                <Reference></Reference>
                <Best>5</Best>
                <UserId>AA10001432</UserId>
                <UserNick>Aaron C</UserNick>
                <Date>2005-12-08 08:51:57</Date>
                <Timestamp>1134060717</Timestamp>
            </Answer>
        </Answers>
        <Comments></Comments>
    </Question>
</ResultSet>

Rate Limit

Yahoo! Web Search Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per IP per day per API. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Errors

The Yahoo! Answers Web Search services return the standard errors. There are no service-specific errors.