Is there a search API for Yandex, preferably in python?

Question

Is there an official API or semi-professional API to perform searches on Yandex.com?

Answer 1

There is an official API - this one , with documentation in Russian (although Google Translate is likely to be enough for most needs). The API is based on XML (HTTP POST requests with XML content, the schema available here ), so it is not agnostic.

Answer 2

You can also use this python client: https://github.com/dbf256/py-ya-xml .

Answer 3

API documentation in English: http://api.yandex.com/xml/doc/dg/concepts/about.xml

You must first get the API key from here

Note: you have a daily limit of 10 searches !