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The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups. Yahoo! APIs let developers tap into Yahoo!'s world-class data and infrastructure to help power their businesses and integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and interesting place for everyone.

Libraries & Best Practices

Design Pattern Library

Interaction patterns that describe and solve commonly occuring problems within a specific context, addressing a specific online user need or behavior.

Exceptional Performance

Best practices for improving web performance, including research and build tools such as YSlow that focus on the rules for high performance web sites.

Security

Best practices and guidelines to help you protect your users' trust in your application.

Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

A set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML, and AJAX.

APIs and Web Services

Authentication and Sign In

BBAuth

Registered Yahoo! users can sign on for your services without having to complete yet another registration process.

OpenID

Easy delivery of a simplified login experience for your users.

Communication

Mail

Build applications to list messages, display folders, compose and send messages.

Messenger

Create add-ons with collaborative features that can run inside Yahoo! Messenger.

Content

Finance

RSS feeds deliver timely data on finance topics including top stories, most viewed, and company ticker symbol.

RSS Feeds

Content for a variety of products and services -- thousands of feeds in total.

Information Searching

Answers

Provide user-generated advice on any topic, from within your own site.

del.icio.us

Search del.icio.us bookmarks and tags or see when a specific user last posted.

HotJobs

Get HotJobs search results as an RSS feed. Basic and Advanced requests available.

Local

Bring location-based information and user-created content to your website.

Maps

Flash, Ajax and Map Image APIs allow embedding of rich, interactive maps.

Search

Access data from the wide variety of web and vertical search content available via Yahoo!, including Audio, News, Site, Image, Web and Local search content.

Shopping

Access millions of product listings and thousands of merchants.

Traffic

Access real-time traffic alert information for a given location.

Travel

Build applications that allow trip planning and sharing, airfare comparisons, and ratings and reviews.

Upcoming

Add user-generated event and location data to your applications and websites.

Weather

Get up-to-date weather information for your location.

Media

Flickr

Tap into this highly interactive photosharing community that uploads and shares photos and tags.

Live Video Broadcast

Create your own broadcast channel, or display, hack, and mash up live video streams on your website or client.

Media Player

Create an embedded player for each audio link on your site, or, with one click, turn any page into a playlist.

Utilities & Developer Tools

l10n & i18n Tools

Tools that make it easy to set up templates and translate your website.

Network Time

Little helpers for applications that consume web services.

Pipes

A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Yahoo! Widgets

Tools to help build self-contained Widgets.

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