Yahoo! Hacks

Program Yahoo! with VBScript

Build Yahoo! searches into Windows programs or ASP pages with VBScript.

VBScript is a general-purpose scripting language for Windows, and it gets its name from Visual Basic, its big brother of a programming language. With a few tweaks here and there, the code in this hack could add Yahoo! searching to Office applications or an ASP-powered web page. This hack is written to run as a Microsoft Windows Script and it provides just the basics for building a Yahoo! Search query and presenting the results.

Microsoft Windows Script is built into the fabric of the Windows operating system and is used primarily by system administrators to automate some tasks involved with—you guessed it—system administration. But Microsoft Windows Scripts can also be used to automate applications and send data back and forth between programs.

What You Need

If your Windows installation is up-to-date, you shouldn’t need to install anything extra to run this hack. But if it’s been a while since you’ve run Windows Update, you might want to grab the latest version of Microsoft Windows Script at http://www.microsoft.com/scripting. From that page, click Downloads and choose Microsoft Windows Script 5.6 or later for your version of Windows.

This hack also relies on the Microsoft XML Parser to sort the results from Yahoo!. Your system should already have a version of the parser installed, but if you run into trouble, you can always download the latest version at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml ...