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How to scrape Yahoo Search

Yahoo Search is a website where you can search and browse listings. Developers typically collect search results and listing data from its public pages.

Working

6 of 6 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (100%).

Last check 2026-10-18 11:02 UTC · last pass 2026-10-18 11:02 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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What you can get

Search and listing pages contain results that you can extract. The page structure is available for you to parse.

Public pages Working

Page types we check: Search and listing pages.

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one sends the settings on this page, prints the start of the page, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

No extraction recipe for these pages yet: the script fetches the page with the working settings. Add extract rules to get JSON.

yahoo_search_page_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Fetch a Yahoo Search page with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Settings from our health checks (Ujeebu site guide). Prints the start of the page HTML.
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 yahoo_search_page_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
URLS = [
    "https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=coffee+maker",
]
SETTINGS = {
    "js": True,
}


def scrape(client, url):
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params=SETTINGS)
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.text


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for i, url in enumerate(URLS):
    if i:
        time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time
    html = scrape(client, url)
    print(len(html), "bytes")
    print(html[:500])

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/yahoo-search.json.

Try it yourself

Run this on Yahoo Search with your own key

Get a free API key, set UJEEBU_API_KEY and run any script above as it is. 5,000 free credits for 7 days, no card.

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
Costup to 5 credits a request (only HTTP 200 and 404 are billed)

For search and listing pages, change the query or the page parameter in the URL to paginate, and fetch the pages one after another rather than in bursts. Our checks run with JavaScript rendering on (js=true): keep it on. Start with the default (rotating) proxy, the cheapest one that passed most of its attempts in our checks.

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ProxyAttemptsPassed
Default (rotating)66

The cheapest proxy that passes most of our checks of this site.

What people build with Yahoo Search data

  • Research datasetsBuild datasets of public pages for analysis, search or LLM pipelines.More on this use case

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • robots.txt of search.yahoo.com (read 2026-10-18): public pages asked to stay away (Disallow: /search); no crawl delay set.
  • Read Yahoo Search's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape Yahoo Search with Ujeebu?

Yes. 6 of 6 checks of public Yahoo Search pages passed in the last 7 days with the settings on this page.

Which settings work for Yahoo Search?

Call /scrape with js=true. On the default (rotating) proxy, 6 of 6 attempts passed in the last 7 days.

How many credits does a Yahoo Search request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 5 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Is it allowed to scrape Yahoo Search?

Its robots.txt asks generic crawlers to stay away from public pages (Disallow: /search). Collect public pages only, read Yahoo Search's terms of service, keep your request rate modest and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of search.yahoo.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-10-18 11:02:25 UTC; last pass: 2026-10-18 11:02:25 UTC.