Firdosh, a developer from the ydn-flash group put together a Yahoo! search demo using the YahooAPI classes I authored, you can check out his example here: http://seas.mgmt.purdue.edu/~firdosh/YahooAPI/bin/CustomItemRendererExample.html

His app totally reminds me of an AS2 Yahoo! Search example i put together a while back when YDN was still forming, you can check it out here: http://caleb.org/yahoosearch-as2.php

Firdosh also created a YahooImageSearchResult class that extends YahooSearchResult and provides access to the thumbnail and filesize properties of the result. Thanks Firdosh! I’ve updated the YahooAPI code available here and your class is included.

It reminds me of a conversation Ted Patrick and I had a Yahoo! hackday. Ted mentioned how easy it would be to make ActionScript abstraction layers for all of our web services, and trust me … if it was my job, it would be done by now. However, it is not my job (i work on the Media Innovation Group for Yahoo!, all of the YDN stuff i do is done on my own time, under my own accord).

The YahooAPI code was originally checked in to sourceforge, under the project name ‘actionscript’. I also have SVN available on caleb.org, but I haven’t checked any code in as of yet. If anyone is interested in collaborating and making this code stronger, please let me know and i will set up the repositories. I would just do it now, but i’m moving this weekend, thus i’m too busy packing and whatnot to nerd out too hard.

At any rate, thanks for the contribution Firdosh … holla if you’re looking for a job