# Yahoo WOEIDs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-woeids/180906>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 31, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-woeids/180906 "2009-12-31T10:08:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yahoo-woeids/180906/1 "2009-12-31T10:08:23Z")

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I need to make a stab a getting a whole load of yahoo WOEIDs. Doesn’t  
matter if some are wrong but I don’t fancy typing 1000 of them, I have  
1000 place names and I’d like to grab just one WOEID for each… has  
anyone done anything like this before.

I figure I’ll need to write a ruby program to do it.

Any clues I have no idea where to start.

I’d like to get a csv list with

PlaceName,SerialNumber,WOEID

The PlaceName and SerialNumber I have, the WOEID yahoo has.