Yahoo! Voices

Yahoo Voices
Assorted articles and videos, 2005-2014
URL	http://voices.yahoo.com
Status	Closing
Archiving status	In progress...
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	yahoo-voices-grab
Project tracker	yahoovoices
IRC channel	#shutup (on hackint)

Yahoo Voices, a part of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, was a website where authors were paid for their content.

On July 2014, it was announced that it was closing down on July 31.

What we have so far

• A full list of URLs for the 51,947 credited contributors to the currently available articles - [1]
  • URL type http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/USERIDNUMBER/user_name.html
• A full list of URLs for the 1,858,710 articles currently live on the site - [2]
  • URL type http://voices.yahoo.com/whatever-whatever-whatever-SOMENUMBER.html for regular page articles
• Extracted from the full list above, a list of URLs only for the 62,746 video articles - [3]
  • URL type http://voices.yahoo.com/video/whatever-whatever-whatever-SOMENUMBER.html for video articles
• HTML (only) grabs of the raw content_date index pages from Feb 2005-Jul 2014 - [4] and [5]

Basic map

All articles can be found sorted by date of publication via the URL scheme http://voices.yahoo.com/content_date_MM_DD_YYYY.html - valid dates from FEBRUARY 2005 to present day. (Invalid dates are accepted - e.g. 31st February is treated as March 3rd)

Most/all articles are categorised in [only] one of the following categories:

2 : Entertainment [6]
3 : Business & Finance [7]
4 : Education [8]
5 : Health & Wellness [9]
6 : Home Improvement [10]
7 : Lifestyle [11]
8 : Local [12]
9 : Opinion & Editorial [13]
10 : Prose [14]
11 : Recreation [15]
12 : Seniors [16]
14 : Sports [17]
15 : Technology [18]
16 : Travel [19]
17 : Legal [20]
19 : Video Games [21]
22 : Food & Wine [22]
23 : Weddings [23]
24 : Crafts & Hobbies [24]
25 : Parenting [25]
27 : Automotive [26]
30 : Decorating & Design [27]
31 : Careers & Job Searching [28]
32 : Gardening [29]
33 : Music [30]
34 : Religion & Spirituality [31]
35 : Marketing [32]
37 : History [33]
38 : Books [34]
39 : Television [35]
40 : Movies [36]
41 : Dating & Relationships [37]
42 : Poetry [38]
43 : Memoirs [39]
44 : Short Stories [40]
46 : Shopping & Fashion [41]
47 : Creative Writing [42]
48 : Nonprofit information [43]
49 : People [44]
50 : Fitness & Exercise [45]
51 : Dieting & Weight Loss [46]
52 : Fertility & Pregnancy [47]
53 : Pets [48]
54 : Real Estate [49]
55 : Business To Business [50]
57 : Green [51]
58 : Science [52]
59 : Tech Tutorials [53]
60 : Humor [54]
62 : News [55]
68 : Alternative Medicine [56]
69 : Beauty [57]
70 : Diseases & Conditions [58]
71 : Drugs & Medications [59]
72 : Mental Health [60]
74 : Holidays [61]
75 : Politics [62]

Categories have main pages at URLs like http://voices.yahoo.com/books/?cat=38

Category IDs can be suffixed to content_date URLs (e.g. http://voices.yahoo.com/content_date_MM_DD_YYYY_6.html) to list only articles published on that date in that category.

Most articles are single-page basic text-and-graphics (e.g. http://voices.yahoo.com/yahoo-fires-all-contributors-12721520.html?cat=3) while others have video (e.g. http://voices.yahoo.com/video/how-better-housekeeper-12537238.html?cat=6) - the ?cat= category suffix does not appear to be necessary to access the page, but is added by the site if not present. Video articles can be identified by the leading /video/ path in the URL.

Archives

TODO: To be posted.