# Yahoo Scraper (`ivanvs/yahoo-scraper`) Actor

Scrape search results from Yahoo without any limits! Export your search result data into XML, JSON, CSV or Excel!

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ivanvs/yahoo-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Gen First](https://apify.com/ivanvs) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Integrations, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 72 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Yahoo Scraper

Scrape search result data from [Yahoo](https://yahoo.com/) easily with Yahoo Scraper.

### About

Yahoo is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon.

Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google.

### Why should you use it?

It provides the realtime scraping of search results from Yahoo, without requiring any other configuration and without any limits.

### How to use it?

Yahoo Scraper has number of input parameters that can be used.

| Input parameter | Description                                          | Required | Default value |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------- |
| query           | Query which you want to get search results           | `true`   | `""`          |
| maxResult       | Number of results that you want to scrape from Yahoo | false    | `100`         |

#### Examples

##### Input

Scrape search results for query "Senior java developer job" and scrape maximum of 100 results:

```json
{
  "query": "Senior java developer job",
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

##### Output

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.dice.com/jobs/q-senior+java+developer-jobs",
  "title": "senior java developer Jobs | Dice.com",
  "description": "We are looking for a Sr. **Java** **Developer**. This is a full time permanent\nhire position with our client in Raleigh, NC. In this role as a Sr. **Java**\n**Developer** , you will be a part of a team that is building highly scalable\nEnterprise Applications with large amounts of data and Real Time processing\nand / or distributed Client Applications for the company.\n\n",
  "text": null,
  "logo_url": null,
  "links": [],
  "domain": "www.dice.com"
}
```

### Yahoo Scraper data output

The output from Yahoo Scraper is stored in the dataset. After the run is finished, you can download the dataset in various data formats (JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, HTML Table).

### ❓FAQ

#### Do I need proxies to scrape search results from Yahoo?

Proxy for this scraper is already preconfigured for optimal performance.

### Support

For more custom/simplify outputs or Bug report please contact the developer (support (at) getmediumdata.com) or report an issue.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search that you want to execute

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of records to be scraped

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "java developer",
  "maxRecords": 10
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "java developer",
    "maxRecords": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ivanvs/yahoo-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "java developer",
    "maxRecords": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ivanvs/yahoo-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "java developer",
  "maxRecords": 10
}' |
apify call ivanvs/yahoo-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ivanvs/yahoo-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CAkqZ7emTF0Rgt0bn/builds/n7irU73AbTvETC56j/openapi.json