October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Track Additions to Yahoo!
Keep track of the number of sites added to your favorite Yahoo! categories.
Every day, a squad of surfers at Yahoo! adds new sites to the Yahoo! index. These changes are reflected in the Yahoo! What’s New page (http://dir.yahoo.com/new), along with the Picks of the Day.
If you’re a casual surfer, you might not care about the number of new sites added to Yahoo!. But there are several scenarios when you might have an interest:
- You regularly glean information about new sites from Yahoo!
Knowing which categories are growing and which categories are stagnant will tell you where to direct your attention.
- You want to submit sites to Yahoo!
Are you going to spend your hard-earned money adding a site to a category where new sites are added constantly (meaning your submitted site might quickly get buried)? Or will you be paying to add to a category that sees few additions (meaning your site might have a better chance of standing out)?
- You’re interested in trend tracking
Which categories are consistently busy? Which are all but dead? By watching how Yahoo! adds sites to categories, over time you’ll get a sense of the rhythms and trends and detect when unusual activity occurs in a category.
This hack scrapes the recent counts of additions to Yahoo! categories and prints them out, providing an at-a-glance look at additions to various categories. You’ll also get a tab-delimited table of how many sites have been added to each category for each day. A tab-delimited file is excellent ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.