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Table 10.4 Request Parameters
Parameter Description
appid Required parameter. Specifies the application id as a string.
query Specifies the query string.
context Required parameter. Specifies the context string.
results Specifies the number of results to return. Default value is 10.
Maximum value is 100.
start Specifies the starting result position. Default value is 1.
format Specifies the type of file to search for. Default value is ???any???. Other
values that may be specifies are html, msword, pdf, ppt, rss, txt and
xls.
output Specifies the format of the output. Default value is xml. Other
values may be json and php.
callback For json output specifies the callback method for the JSON data.
The XML response returned by the Contextual Web Search service
conforms to the XML Schema
http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/WebSearchResponse.x
sd. The response fields in the Web Service response are discussed in Table
10.5.
Table 10.5 Response Fields
Field Description
ResultSet The root element. Contains all the responses.
Result The element for a response.
totalResultsAvailable Number of query matches.
totalResultsReturned Number of query matches returned.
firstResultPosition Position of the first result.
Title Title of a web page.
Summary Summary of a web page returned.
Url URL of the web page.
ClickUrl URL for linking to the web page.
MimeType MIME type of the page.
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