= BOSSMan -- Gem for interaction with the Yahoo BOSS web service

== Description

BOSSMan can be used to perform image, web and news searches against Yahoo's index. For more information about BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) please refer to http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/. 

== Bugs, Features, Feedback

Feedback would be really appreciated. You can send it to me at john.pignata@gmail.com -- tickets can
be submitted by using Lighthouse: http://pignata.lighthouseapp.com/projects/15761-bossman

== Example Usage

=== Web

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'bossman'
	include BOSSMan

	BOSSMan.application_id = <Your Application ID>

	boss = BOSSMan::Search.web("prospect park", { :count => 5, :filter => "-hate" })

	puts "Number of results: #{boss.totalhits}"
	puts

	boss.results.each do |result|
	  puts "#{result.title}"
	  puts "-" * 80
	  puts "#{result.abstract}"
	  puts
	end

=== News

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'bossman'
	include BOSSMan

	BOSSMan.application_id = <Your Application ID>

	boss = BOSSMan::Search.news("brooklyn new york", { :age => "7d" })

	boss.results.each do |result|
	  puts "#{result.title} [from #{result.source}]"
	  puts "-" * 80
	  puts "#{result.abstract}"
	  puts
		
=== Images

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'bossman'
	include BOSSMan

	BOSSMan.application_id = <Your Application ID>

	boss = BOSSMan::Search.images("brooklyn dumbo", { :dimensions => "large" })

	boss.results.each do |result|
	  puts "#{result.url}: #{result.abstract}"
	end
	
=== Spelling

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'bossman'
	include BOSSMan
	
	BOSSMan.application_id = <Your Application ID>
	
	boss = BOSSMan::Search.spelling("Diabretes")
	
	puts boss.suggestion
	
== Output Objects

Assuming an object bossed called search:

search = BOSSMan::Search.web("staten island", 0, 20)

=== Common

search.responsecode				: HTTP response code
search.nextpage					: REST URL to next page of search results
search.count					: Number of search results contained in response
search.start					: Search result from which output starts
search.totalhits				: De-duplicated total number of results search yielded
search.deephits					: Total number of results search yielded
search.results[].clickurl		: Tracking URL of result; must be used in user-facing
										anchor tags by BOSS TOU
search.results[].url			: URL of result

=== Web

search.results[].abstract		: Description of result with keywords emboldened
search.results[].title			: Document title with keywords emboldened
search.results[].dispurl		: Display URL of result
search.results[].size			: Size of result in bytes
search.results[].date			: Date result was indexed

=== News

search.results[].abstract		: Description of news story
search.results[].title			: Title of news story
search.results[].language		: Language of news story
search.results[].date			: Last publication date of news story
search.results[].time			: Last publication time of news story
search.results[].source			: Source of news story
search.results[].sourceurl		: URL of source publication

=== Images

search.results[].abstract			: Description of image
search.results[].filename			: Filename of image
search.results[].size				: Size of image
search.results[].format				: Format of image
search.results[].height				: Height of full-size image
search.results[].date				: Last modification date of image (YYYY/MM/DD)
search.results[].mimetype			: MIME type of image
search.results[].refererclickurl	: Link to page where image was found
search.results[].refererurl 		: Link to page where image was found
search.results[].title				: Title of image (usually the filename)
search.results[].width				: Width of full-size image
search.results[].thumbnailurl		: URL of thumbnail image
search.results[].thumbnail_height	: Height of thumbnail image
search.results[].thumbnail_width    : Width of thumbnail image

=== Spelling

search.suggestion					: Returns spelling suggestion from BOSS

=== Raw dump formats

Resultsets are returnable in JSON, XML and YAML by use of to_json, to_xml (or to_s), to_yaml respectively.

search			 			: dumps XML of entire resultset
search.to_json	 			: dumps JSON of entire resultset
search.to_yaml				: dumps YAML of entire resultset
search.results[3]			: dumps XML of one search result
search.results[3].to_json	: dumps JSON of one search result
search.results[3].to_yaml	: dumps YAML of one search result

== Installation

   jp@populuxe:~/code/ruby$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
   jp@populuxe:~/code/ruby$ gem install jpignata-bossman

== Requirements

* Active Support >= 2.1

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Jay Pignata

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