ygroups.HGS.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd" securityLevel="any">
  <meta>
    <author>HOUYHNHNM</author>
    <description>Acquires the groups from Yahoo Group search on a given page and type</description>
    <documentationURL>http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VASY5CLHMAYFUT265F7HSL3YHE/blog/articles/264306?listPage=index</documentationURL>
    <sampleQuery>select * from {table} where query="yahoo"</sampleQuery>
    <sampleQuery>select * from {table} where query="yahoo" AND page="1"</sampleQuery>
    <sampleQuery>select * from {table} where query="yahoo" AND type="r"</sampleQuery>
    <sampleQuery>select * from {table} where query="yahoo" AND type="m" AND page="1"</sampleQuery>
  </meta>
  <bindings>
    <select itemPath="" produces="XML">
      <inputs>
        <key id='query' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='type' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="false" />
        <key id='page' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="false" />
      </inputs>
      <execute>
      <![CDATA[ 

		var pagevar=0;
		if(page)
		{
			pagevar=parseInt(page);
			if(pagevar>0)
			{
				pagevar=pagevar-1;
				pagevar=pagevar*10;
			}
			else
			{
				pagevar=1;
				pagevar=pagevar-1;
				pagevar=pagevar*10;
			}
		}
		else
		{
			pagevar=1;
			pagevar=pagevar-1;
			pagevar=pagevar*10;
		}

		var typevar="";
		if(type)
		{
			if(type.match("r")!=null)
			{
				typevar="relevance";
			}
			else
			{
				if(type.match("o")!=null)
				{
					typevar="oldest";
				}
				else
				{
					if(type.match("n")!=null)
					{
						typevar="newest";
					}
					else
					{
						if(type.match("m")!=null)
						{
							typevar="members";
						}
						else
						{
							typevar="relevance";
						}
					}
				}
			}
			
		}
		else
		{
			typevar="relevance";
		}

		var yqlstring1="select * from html where url=\"";
		var urlstring1="http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=";
		var urlstring2="&sg=";
		var urlstring3="&sort=";
		var yqlstring2="\" and xpath=\"//li[@class='hbox groupsSearch-result-entry']\"";

		var yqlquery=y.query(yqlstring1+urlstring1+query+urlstring2+String(pagevar)+urlstring3+typevar+yqlstring2);
		var yqlresults=yqlquery.results;
		var yqlcounter=parseInt(yqlresults.li.length());
		var index=0;
		var xmlret=new XML();
		xmlret=<root><count>{yqlresults.li.length()}</count></root>;
		while(index<yqlcounter)
		{
			xmlret.root+=<node>
					<anchor>{yqlresults.li[index].h4.a.@href}</anchor>
					<name>{yqlresults.li[index].h4.a.text()}</name>
					<description>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.p.text()}</description>
					<members>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.ul[0].li[0].span[1].text()}</members>
					<latest>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.ul[0].li[1].span[1].text()}</latest>
					<creation>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.ul[0].li[2].span[1].text()}</creation>
					<archive>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.ul[1].li[0].span[1].text()}</archive>
					<moderated>{yqlresults.li[index].div.div.ul[1].li[1].span[1].text()}</moderated>
				</node>
			index=index+1;
		}
		response.object=xmlret;

 ]]>
      </execute>
    </select>
  </bindings>
</table>