Yahoo Term Extraction REST API
The Term Extraction API allows users to perform content analysis by providing a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. It is one of the technologies used in Yahoo! Search. It uses a RESTful API and responses are formatted in XML.

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- Search thousands of affiliate offers across 60+ different networks. OfferTrack helps you compare similar offers and fine the best deals to promote.
- This application find local twitter trends for your city. Just click on the map, and the trends will appear. Also uses the Yahoo Term Extraction API.
- A free software project which analyses news and offers related stories coming from non-corporate sources. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote alternative, non-...
Related Articles (3)
Yahoo Term Extraction is Reborn as Content Analysis
The new Yahoo Content Analysis API capitalizes on the success of its term extraction API while adding new functionality. The reborn implementation not only extracts terms and entities but ranks them based on perceived importance within the article. Peter Levinson, product manager for Yahoo Content Analysis, says “The new API gives developers actionable metadata about their content. By extracting and then ranking terms on the page, the API separates signal from noise in unstructured content.”
Not Dead Yet: Yahoo's Term Extraction API Lives to Fight Another Day
Late last week we reported on Yahoo's decision to shut down two of its APIs: the Term Extraction and the Contextual Web Search (our profiles of the Yahoo Term Extraction API and the Yahoo Search API). But in response to outcry from the developer community since that announcement, it looks like Yahoo will be keeping the Term Extraction alive.
Yahoo Quietly Axes Two Search APIs
It hasn't been long since developers responded with fear that Yahoo's innovative search tools could go away. Now two of the smaller, but still well-loved, APIs have been given less than a month to live.
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