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{{Infobox project
{{Infobox project
| title = Yahoo Voices
| title = Yahoo Voices
| logo =  
| logo = Yahoo-logo.png
| description = Assorted articles and videos, 2005-2014
| description = Assorted articles and videos, 2005-2014
| URL = http://voices.yahoo.com
| URL = http://voices.yahoo.com
| image = Yahoo_voices_homepage_screenshot.png
| image = Yahoo_voices_homepage_screenshot.png
| project_status = {{closing}}
| project_status = {{offline}}
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}
| archiving_status = {{saved}}
| irc = shutup
| irc = shutup
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoo-voices-grab yahoo-voices-grab]
| tracker = [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/yahoovoices/ yahoovoices]
}}
}}


'''Yahoo Voices''' is closing down.
'''Yahoo Voices''', a part of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, was a website where authors were paid for their content.
 
It was formerly know as Associated Content until it was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Voices</ref><ref>http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-deletes-75000-associated-content-articles-moves-rest-to-yahoo-voices-103376</ref>
 
On July 2014, it was announced that it was closing down on July 31.<ref>http://www.viralglobalnews.com/technology/yahoo-voices-contributor-network-shutting/11041/</ref><ref>http://contributor.yahoo.com/help/#A571</ref>


==What we have so far==
==What we have so far==
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** URL type http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/USERIDNUMBER/user_name.html
** 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 - [https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnr3njg9rdcntyg/article-urls.zip]
* A full list of URLs for the 1,858,710 articles currently live on the site - [https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnr3njg9rdcntyg/article-urls.zip]
** URL type http://voices.yahoo.com/whatever-whatever-whatever-SOMENUMBER.html
** 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 - [https://www.dropbox.com/s/2a3vxtlob6b4muv/videoarticles.txt]
** 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 - [https://www.dropbox.com/s/j11dwdps9feuz5i/content_crawl1.zip] and [https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tx2vizvvtbgzsq/content_crawl2.zip]
* HTML (only) grabs of the raw content_date index pages from Feb 2005-Jul 2014 - [https://www.dropbox.com/s/j11dwdps9feuz5i/content_crawl1.zip] and [https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tx2vizvvtbgzsq/content_crawl2.zip]


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


2 : Entertainment<br>
2 : Entertainment [http://voices.yahoo.com/entertainment/?cat=2]<br>
3 : Business & Finance<br>
3 : Business & Finance [http://voices.yahoo.com/business/?cat=3]<br>
5 : Health & Wellness<br>
4 : Education [http://voices.yahoo.com/education/?cat=4]<br>
6 : Home Improvement<br>
5 : Health & Wellness [http://voices.yahoo.com/health_wellness/?cat=5]<br>
7 : Lifestyle<br>
6 : Home Improvement [http://voices.yahoo.com/home_improvement/?cat=6]<br>
14 : Sports<br>
7 : Lifestyle [http://voices.yahoo.com/lifestyle/?cat=7]<br>
15 : Technology<br>
8 : Local [http://voices.yahoo.com/local/?cat=8]<br>
16 : Travel<br>
9 : Opinion & Editorial [http://voices.yahoo.com/opinion_editorial/?cat=9]<br>
27 : Automotive<br>
10 : Prose [http://voices.yahoo.com/prose/?cat=10]<br>
38 : Books<br>
11 : Recreation [http://voices.yahoo.com/recreation/?cat=11]<br>
47 : Creative Writing<br>
12 : Seniors [http://voices.yahoo.com/seniors/?cat=12]<br>
62 : News<br>
14 : Sports [http://voices.yahoo.com/sports/?cat=14]<br>
 
15 : Technology [http://voices.yahoo.com/technology/?cat=15]<br>
-- NB: list not complete --
16 : Travel [http://voices.yahoo.com/travel/?cat=16]<br>
17 : Legal [http://voices.yahoo.com/legal/?cat=17]<br>
19 : Video Games [http://voices.yahoo.com/video_games/?cat=19]<br>
22 : Food & Wine [http://voices.yahoo.com/food_wine/?cat=22]<br>
23 : Weddings [http://voices.yahoo.com/weddings/?cat=23]<br>
24 : Crafts & Hobbies [http://voices.yahoo.com/hobbies/?cat=24]<br>
25 : Parenting [http://voices.yahoo.com/parenting/?cat=25]<br>
27 : Automotive [http://voices.yahoo.com/automotive/?cat=27]<br>
30 : Decorating & Design [http://voices.yahoo.com/design/?cat=30]<br>
31 : Careers & Job Searching [http://voices.yahoo.com/careers_job_searching/?cat=31]<br>
32 : Gardening [http://voices.yahoo.com/gardening/?cat=32]<br>
33 : Music [http://voices.yahoo.com/music/?cat=33]<br>
34 : Religion & Spirituality [http://voices.yahoo.com/religion/?cat=34]<br>
35 : Marketing [http://voices.yahoo.com/marketing/?cat=35]<br>
37 : History [http://voices.yahoo.com/history/?cat=37]<br>
38 : Books [http://voices.yahoo.com/books/?cat=38]<br>
39 : Television [http://voices.yahoo.com/television/?cat=39]<br>
40 : Movies [http://voices.yahoo.com/movies/?cat=40]<br>
41 : Dating & Relationships [http://voices.yahoo.com/relationships/?cat=41]<br>
42 : Poetry [http://voices.yahoo.com/poetry/?cat=42]<br>
43 : Memoirs [http://voices.yahoo.com/memoirs/?cat=43]<br>
44 : Short Stories [http://voices.yahoo.com/short_stories/?cat=44]<br>
46 : Shopping & Fashion [http://voices.yahoo.com/fashion/?cat=46] <br>
47 : Creative Writing [http://voices.yahoo.com/creative_writing/?cat=47]<br>
48 : Nonprofit information [http://voices.yahoo.com/nonprofit/?cat=48]<br>
49 : People [http://voices.yahoo.com/people/?cat=49]<br>
50 : Fitness & Exercise [http://voices.yahoo.com/exercise/?cat=50]<br>
51 : Dieting & Weight Loss [http://voices.yahoo.com/dieting_weight_loss/?cat=51]<br>
52 : Fertility & Pregnancy [http://voices.yahoo.com/fertility_pregnancy/?cat=52]<br>
53 : Pets [http://voices.yahoo.com/pets/?cat=53]<br>
54 : Real Estate [http://voices.yahoo.com/real_estate/?cat=54]<br>
55 : Business To Business [http://voices.yahoo.com/business_to_business/?cat=55]<br>
57 : Green [http://voices.yahoo.com/green/?cat=57]<br>
58 : Science [http://voices.yahoo.com/science/?cat=58]<br>
59 : Tech Tutorials [http://voices.yahoo.com/tutorials/?cat=59]<br>
60 : Humor [http://voices.yahoo.com/humor/?cat=60]<br>
62 : News [http://voices.yahoo.com/news/?cat=62]<br>
68 : Alternative Medicine [http://voices.yahoo.com/alternative_medicine/?cat=68]<br>
69 : Beauty [http://voices.yahoo.com/beauty/?cat=69]<br>
70 : Diseases & Conditions [http://voices.yahoo.com/diseases/?cat=70]<br>
71 : Drugs & Medications [http://voices.yahoo.com/medications/?cat=71]<br>
72 : Mental Health [http://voices.yahoo.com/mental_health/?cat=72]<br>
74 : Holidays [http://voices.yahoo.com/holidays/?cat=74]<br>
75 : Politics [http://voices.yahoo.com/politics/?cat=75]<br>


Categories have main pages at URLs like http://voices.yahoo.com/books/?cat=38  
Categories have main pages at URLs like http://voices.yahoo.com/books/?cat=38  
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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.
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.
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.
 
How to grab videos: http://pastebin.com/zBPGtA7h
 
== Archives ==
 
All articles and videos (that were available) were saved in [[WARC]] format. They are located at the [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_yahoovoices archiveteam_yahoovoices] collection. They are browseable using the Wayback Machine.
 
== External Links ==
 
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101220213748/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=471175 "Yahoo! to Acquire Associated Content"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140731034638/http://voices.yahoo.com/associated-content-served-yahoo-style-6056388.html?cat=9 "Associated Content Served Yahoo Style"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140731034643/http://voices.yahoo.com/yahoo-leave-associated-contents-secret-sauce-alone-6159574.html?cat=15 "Yahoo to Leave Associated Content's "Secret Sauce" Alone"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140731034646/http://voices.yahoo.com/associated-content-writer-pledges-full-allegiance-6065276.html?cat=2 "Associated Content Writer Pledges Full Allegiance to Yahoo"]
 
== References ==
<references />
 
[[category:yahoo!]]
 
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Revision as of 16:22, 16 January 2017

Yahoo Voices
Yahoo! Voices logo
Assorted articles and videos, 2005-2014
Assorted articles and videos, 2005-2014
URL http://voices.yahoo.com
Status Offline
Archiving status Saved!
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.

It was formerly know as Associated Content until it was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010.[1][2]

On July 2014, it was announced that it was closing down on July 31.[3][4]

What we have so far

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.

How to grab videos: http://pastebin.com/zBPGtA7h

Archives

All articles and videos (that were available) were saved in WARC format. They are located at the archiveteam_yahoovoices collection. They are browseable using the Wayback Machine.

External Links

References