{"id":215,"date":"2008-09-15T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:49:03","slug":"yahoos-boss-api-example-and-notes-on-yahoos-hackday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/yahoos-boss-api-example-and-notes-on-yahoos-hackday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#8217;s BOSS API Example and Notes on Yahoo&#8217;s Hackday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Yahoo&#8217;s hackday, I was able to finish up<a href=\"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/rb\/trunk\/foodsearch.rb\"> this script<\/a> in Ruby that returns back search results from <a href=\"http:\/\/yelp.com\/\">yelp<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chowhound.com\/\">chowhound<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/search\/boss\/boss_guide\/\">Yahoo&#8217;s BOSS API<\/a>. The great thing about it is that you can hit the API an unlimited number of times!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few notes that should help anybody the next time they attend a hackday &#8211; Yahoo&#8217;s or anyone else&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The night before install libraries you think you won&#8217;t need. I really wish that I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracklabs.com\/prawnto\">prawnto<\/a> installed. I got mired in prawnto idiosyncracies, and was out of the race pretty quick.<\/li>\n<li>Good coders are fast. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hueniverse.com\/\">Eran Lahav-Hammer<\/a>, one of the authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/oauth.net\/\">OAuth<\/a>, good coders can code an OAuth implementation in the language of their choice in less than one day. Are you a good coder?<\/li>\n<li>Have fun! It&#8217;s a pretty rare opportunity to have so many folks in the industry in one spot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Yahoo&#8217;s hackday, I was able to finish up this script in Ruby that returns back search results from yelp and chowhound from Yahoo&#8217;s BOSS API. The great thing about it is that you can hit the API an unlimited number of times! Here are a few notes that should help anybody the next time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,103,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ruby","category-social-media","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}