Yahoo! Voices

Yahoo Voices
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.

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.

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

• "Yahoo! to Acquire Associated Content"
• "Associated Content Served Yahoo Style"
• "Yahoo to Leave Associated Content's "Secret Sauce" Alone"
• "Associated Content Writer Pledges Full Allegiance to Yahoo"