Spying on competition

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I got a quick question, what software or service do you use in order to spy on you Yahoo! competition? Usually I use Spyfu & Keyword Elite for Adwords, but I didn't have success finding something nice for YSM.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
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OK,
so I looked for a little bit more ways on how to spy on YSM competitors, and I didn't come across any good solution.

So I fired up my Zend Enviroment & started coding. After 4 hours of coding, I came with something really nice. But I came across some problems. Yahoo alows me to make only about 50 queries in a short period of time. After that it returns me 999 error, which basically says something about unusual user behavior.

I tried using proxies, however, I had troubles to find some good ones. All the proxies I used returned me the 999 error from the first hit, even on my desktop PC.

So, now I'm basically stuck. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.
 
use the yahoo api - you can do (i think) ~5000 queries on a single ip address in 24 hours then switch ips and start again. its the base of a lot of my spiders and works a treat for heavy projects.

pm me if you need more help, i've got some php yahoo api classes and functions laying around you can mod if you want or read up yourself here:

Yahoo! Search Web Services

edit: not sure you can pull ad data with the api but you can certainly get all the other stuff.
 
itchy said:
use the yahoo api - you can do (i think) ~5000 queries on a single ip address in 24 hours then switch ips and start again. its the base of a lot of my spiders and works a treat for heavy projects.

pm me if you need more help, i've got some php yahoo api classes and functions laying around you can mod if you want or read up yourself here:

Yahoo! Search Web Services

edit: not sure you can pull ad data with the api but you can certainly get all the other stuff.
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Thanks buddy.

I checked the API and unfortunately it serves only Organic Serps...

Thanks anyway, will look for more methods... :)
 
if you have a dynamic ip address at home you can add code to disconnect/reconnect your router/modem (via it's web interface) hence giving you a new ip and 50 more times to scrape. its messy but works.
 
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