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This entry is a bit of a cookbook for using Yahoo's Python library for accessing the BOSS Mashup Framework. It has full examples for searching the web, images, news , for paginating results, and for limiting searches to specific domains.

You are responding to this comment written by Will Larson on July 14th 2008, 17:44.

Jim,

I haven't tried this on Windows. However, based on the error message it is either failing on parsing your config.json file or at parsing the response recieved from Yahoo's service. I would first make sure that your config.json is properly formed (seeing the entire traceback would make it easier to eliminate this possibility), and that you entered a valid BOSS APP ID into it.

Beyond that, it would seem that you're receiving invalid data, which doesn't quite make sense to me. Just to verify things were correct I ran through the first example just now and it still works for me.

>>> from yos.boss import ysearch
>>> from yos.yql import db
>>> data = ysearch.search("Django",count=10)
>>> table = db.create(data=data)
>>> table.rows[0]
{u'dispurl': u'www.<b>djangoproject.com</b>', u'title': u'<b>Django</b> | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines', u'url': u'http://www.djangoproject.com/', u'abstract': u'<b>Django</b> is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. <b>...</b> <b>Django</b> focuses on automating as much as possible <b>...</b>', u'clickurl': u'http://www.djangoproject.com/', u'date': u'2008/06/19', u'size': u'8524'}
>>> 

If you post a full traceback I can try to be a bit more helpful.

Will

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