Just finished up using one of my favorite and what seems to be little well known web service, the Term Extraction from the folks a Yahoo! You feed it some content and it returns a list of significant words from the content. This simple service can be incredibly useful.
For instance I recently used this service to scan an article on a site and using the words that it returns, as tags to pull relevant photos from Flickr to go along with the article. So in this case I used it to pull tags from a body of text, very cool. You can also use YQL to make calls to it as well.
2 replies on “Yahoo! Term Extraction Web Service”
Hi,
I am biased, but since yahoo term extraction is being shut down, I’d recommend looking at Zemanta API:
http://www.zemanta.com/blog/yahoo-term-extraction-replacement-api/
bye
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta
Hi Andraz,
Thanks for sharing the Zemanta API, that looks like something I’d definitely like to check out.
I don’t recall hearing anything regarding the shut down of the Yahoo Term Extraction (some search rumors as of late), if you have heard more please share.