Running Search

• Swap out your existing doStuff function for this:

  doStuff : function() {
    if ($.searchScript) {
      $.head.removeChild($.searchScript);
    }
    $.searchScript = document.createElement('script');
    var url = 'http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch';
    url += '?language=en&appid=SearchHack&output=json';
    url += '&callback=SEARCH.showSearchResults&query='+$.q.value;
    this.runScript($.searchScript, url);
  },

• After carefully removing it if it's there already, we're building a search query. It's on multiple lines here; feel free to put it all on one.
  • http://search.yahooapis.com is our server name. WebSearchService is our service name. V1 is our version. webSearch is our search method.
  • After the question-mark we start to see parameters and values, such as language, which we're setting to English, our appid, SearchHack, our output format, JSON, and our callback function, SEARCH.showSearchResults, which will be described shortly.
  • Finally, there's our query value, set to whatever's in the entry blank.
• Check out your search results in XML or JSON format.

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