Answers.com is throwing a bone to WordPress users with their new AnswerLinks plugin written by Alex King.

But wait, there’s an Answers.com API? A few pokes at the Google machine reveal nothing relevant, and Asnwers.com’s site is mum too. Taking apart the code, I get the following (modded enough to make it run-able if you drop it in the base of your WordPress install):

require_once('wp-config.php');
require_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/class-snoopy.php');
$snoop = new Snoopy;
$snoop->read_timeout = 5;
$snoop->submit(
	'http://alink.answers.com/link/xml'
	, array(
		'text' => “Put a long-ish string of meaningful text here, then look for interesting stuff in the print_r'd output.”
	)
);
print_r($snoop->results);

If the input string isn’t sufficiently long, the output will be empty (eliminating one of my potential uses for it), but it’s interesting to twiddle.

Answers.com, API, AnswerLinks, hacking, remixable, mashable

Posted October 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: AnswerLinks, Answers.com, api, hacking, mashable, remixable.

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