Comments on: Yahoo Local Search In Excel

By: Doris Taylpr

Doris Taylpr — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:17:47 +0000

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Doris Taylor
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By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:17:15 +0000

Hey Mark

Im having a real tough time getting the radius variable to work. I want to receive results up to 50 miles away from my query. How would i do that?

Thanks a bunch

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:21:13 +0000

Heres another question: Is there any application out there that lets u extract data from websites for free? Specifically, for marketing lists i wanted to know if there was an api that would pick up fax numbers from a website. Thanks for your feedback!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:16:15 +0000

Ali: If yahoo provided this data it would be possible, however they don't currently provide fax and email.

You can look at the Response fields about halfway down the page here to see what else they offer.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:40:47 +0000

Hey thanks Mark for the info. I simply LOVE this nifty tool for my marketing lists. I was wondering if there is any possible way to capture fax numbers and email the same way as the address and phone number. Thanks for being such a great help. Rock on AutomateExcel.com!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:55:42 +0000

Ali:

Both are possible, however the current inputs would need to be changed. Reading the spec shows distance and radius are valid inputs.

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:20:04 +0000

Is there any way to include the radius into the search? How about distance?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:54:08 +0000

awesome... simply awesome.

I use Yahoo quite a bit to gather mailing lists for some marketing I do... and I do it by radius. In the past, it has been a pain in the ass to convert the yahoo results to Excel for mail merge purposes... so this is a gigantic time saver.

Thanks!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:00:08 +0000

Also, I'll leave this as a basic example of how to get some Yahoo api results into Excel, however,,,,

According to the documentation you can get 20 results per query, however using the "start" variable in the string you send you can return various pages of data

example

&start=1&results=20
gives you the first 20 results

&start=21&results=20
gives you the next 20 results

I haven't tested it, but that's the what I understand from reading.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:43:27 +0000

Jordan, Correct again, Radius does not work with Zip Code, just city or street. I was using the tool Jwalk posted to as a guide, I guess that's wrong too, I'll have to check.

Straight from the Yahoo site:

"The distance as calculated by one of the following methods:

When you enter a street address along with your search term, this is the distance from that particular street address to each result.
When you enter your search term along with a city or a city and state, this is the distance from the city center to the business you're looking for"

As for resultcount, the max you can return is 20 results.