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web library problems

Posted by massey on Oct 05, 2009

hi,
i'm having a lot of trouble getting some of the web librarys examples to work.

i know i need the ID for google and yahoo, but i can't get morguefile or urbandictioary to work. i was wondering if there was any additional setup required or if these services have changed?

urbandictionary error ="faultType: "

any help appreciated


 
Posted by Tom De Smedt on Oct 05, 2009

Hi,

Morguefile stopped their service months ago, and Urban Dictionary dropped theirs recently too. Without their API's there is no (legal) way for the Web library to reach their content. You could "screen scrape" the content from the HTML with web.page() but they will probably ban your IP address for this. Or, you could try asking them politely if they have future plans for a new API. If not, Morguefile and Urban Dictionary support will probably vanish from the Web library in the future.

I checked the Yahoo service and that is acting funny too, but probably just needs some minor adjustments to bring it up to date again. I'll look into this.

Best,
Tom


Posted by massey on Oct 07, 2009

yeah, i guessed it was probably due to changes in there service, i haven't had any trouble with yahoo yet, but i haven't tried anything complicated yet. nice to know its not just my ignorance though.
thanks for the info.
on a similar note, is there a way to insure flickr only returns creative commons images? there own advanced search has the option.