yahoo group

DEVONagent Automation
1

Anyone had success creating a search pluging for a subscribed yahoo group?

Mike

2

As far as I can tell it’s only possible to search for groups but not in groups. But maybe I’m wrong as I don’t use Yahoo & its groups?

3

I’m able to great a search link in Omniweb, which pulls up the contents of a specific Yahoo groups forum.
This is the url it returns for a search of “aggression.” : groups.yahoo.com/group/CASIClass … n&charset=

Any idea how to copy the same search funtionality that Omniweb is using with their “Add Search Shortcut” feature?

4

Could you send a screenshot of the shortcut’s parameters to cgrunenberg - at -devon-technologies.com? Thanks in advance!

5

You could use a simple plugin like…


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Identifier</key>
	<string>groups.yahoo.com.CASIClassroom</string>
	<key>Keyword</key>
	<string>casi</string>
	<key>KeywordsUrl</key>
	<string>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CASIClassroom/msearch?query=_agentQuery_&amp;charset=</string>
	<key>Name</key>
	<string>CASIClassroom</string>
	<key>Version</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
</dict>
</plist>

…and enter “casi aggression” (without quotes) afterwards in the address bar of browser windows. But it’s not (yet) usable for real searching.

6

Thanks for the quick response.
When trying this, an error of “too many HTTP redirects” comes up.

mike

7

Enabling cookies for all sites and being logged in should fix this.