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.[1][2]
What we have so far
- A full list of URLs for the 51,947 credited contributors to the currently available articles - [1]
- 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
5 : Health & Wellness [8]
6 : Home Improvement
7 : Lifestyle
8 : Local
9 : Opinion & Editorial
10 : Prose [9]
11 : Recreation
14 : Sports
15 : Technology
16 : Travel
17 : Legal [10]
19 : Video Games
22 : Food & Wine
24 : Crafts & Hobbies
27 : Automotive [11]
30 : Decorating & Design
31 : Careers & Job Searching [12]
32 : Gardening
33 : Music [13]
35 : Marketing [14]
37 : History
38 : Books [15]
39 : Television [16]
40 : Movies [17]
41 : Dating & Relationships
42 : Poetry [18]
43 : Memoirs [19]
44 : Short Stories [20]
47 : Creative Writing [21]
48 : Nonprofit information [22]
49 : People [23]
50 : Fitness & Exercise [24]
51 : Dieting & Weight Loss [25]
52 : Fertility & Pregnancy [26]
54 : Real Estate [27]
55 : Business To Business [28]
57 : Green
58 : Science
59 : Tech Tutorials
60 : Humor [29]
62 : News
68 : Alternative Medicine [30]
69 : Beauty
70 : Diseases & Conditions [31]
71 : Drugs & Medications [32]
72 : Mental Health [33]
75 : Politics
-- NB: list not complete --
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.