# BOSSMan: Yahoo BOSS gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bossman-yahoo-boss-gem/146188>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 18, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bossman-yahoo-boss-gem/146188 "2008-08-18T21:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpignata](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jpignata](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jpignata)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bossman-yahoo-boss-gem/146188/1 "2008-08-18T21:09:05Z")

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Yahoo BOSS is an API that allows for use of search results from  
Yahoo’s search index with very little restrictions. I’ve put together  
a quick gem for handling interaction with it.

There’s sample code included in the gem and full output details in the  
README. Feedback on this would be great, thanks!

> **[GitHub - jpignata/bossman-gem: Ruby gem for interacting with Yahoo's BOSS web...](https://github.com/jpignata/bossman-gem)**
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> Ruby gem for interacting with Yahoo's BOSS web service. BOSS is kind of moribund, so I'm not really maintaining this anymore. - GitHub - jpignata/bossman-gem: Ruby gem for interacting with ...

To install:

$ gem sources -a [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)  
$ gem install jpignata-bossman

Sample code:

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘bossman’

include BOSSMan

BOSSMan.application\_id = [Your Application ID]

news = BOSSMan::Search.news(“Barack Obama”, 0, 3)

news.results.each do |result|  
puts “#{result.title} [from #{result.source}]”  
puts “-” \* 80  
puts “#{result.abstract}”  
puts  
end

Output:

## $ ruby obama.rb Barack Obama hails ‘patriot’ John McCain, blasts GOP energy plan [from Boston Herald]

RENO, Nev. - So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama  
and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a  
California megachurch, Obama called…

## Dave ‘Mudcat’ Saunders: Barack Obama’s elitist campaign alienates South [from Times Online]

The sea of shining, hope-filled faces that routinely flood Barack  
Obama’s rallies would be an alien environment for the grizzled  
features and tobacco-stained temperament of Dave “Mudcat” Saunders.

## Barack Obama Meets With Oil Tycoon Pickens [from Nasdaq]

WASHINGTON (AFP)–Barack Obama met Sunday with oil tycoon turned  
alternative energy advocate T. Boone Pickens, who funded devastating  
attacks on 2004 Democratic White House pick John Kerry.