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Yahoo! Messenger IM SDK now available!

July 20, 2010 on 4:12 pm | In News, Other services, Uncategorized | 50 Comments

This is a big day for Yahoo! Messenger. I’m happy to announce that we’ve opened up the Yahoo! Messenger platform for developers. This exciting SDK will allow developers to use the Yahoo! Messenger platform to create innovative new applications and services.

We tried to make our SDK as simple to use as possible. We’ve exposed a new REST API for the Yahoo! Messenger platform — the same API that we use with our own products. So we know that it’s rock solid. In fact, all you need is a little knowledge of HTTP and JSON and you’ll be up and running in no time, no matter what programming environment you’re using. The SDK contains all the key Yahoo! Messenger features that you’ve come to expect, including real-time presence, contact-list management, instant messaging, file transfers, and user-image management.

Please make sure you read the documentation that we’ve included. This document provides best practices, guidelines for using the service, Messenger logos (including our beloved Smiley), and test cases to make sure your application is working properly.

Finally, note that we’re rolling out the SDK in most of Asia, as well as India, initially. The reason we chose this region is the dynamic nature of instant messaging in this market. There are some crazy and wonderful things with Yahoo! Messenger coming out of this corner of the world.

For those of you in the rest of the world, don’t worry; we have plans to roll out this program on a larger scale very soon.

Here’s a list of handy links:

Dudley Wong

Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

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  1. Congratulations to the team!

    Comment by Sarah B. — July 20, 2010 #

  2. Okay, there doesn’t seem to be any regional limiting factors on the API itself, so what exactly keeps one from using this in apps in non Asian countries? That said, when is the official support for US coming?

    Comment by Karl Adam — July 20, 2010 #

  3. Is this a ‘normal’ error? ;-)

    API Key Creation Failed – There was an internal error that caused a failure over here. Please try again.

    http://dyndns.moradi.no/a2/2010_07_21_api_key_creation_failed.png

    Comment by Rune Henning Johansen — July 20, 2010 #

  4. Is the Plugin SDK available too?

    Comment by Sundar — July 20, 2010 #

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  7. Very useful!

    Comment by Bess — July 21, 2010 #

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  9. I can’t get the new messenger to work. I get an error message when I try to sign in. Is anyone else having this problem?

    Comment by Amy M — July 22, 2010 #

  10. انت مينن

    Comment by نادر — July 22, 2010 #

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  12. Finally i was able to configure my pc to pc call. voice call and video call.

    Comment by ghie — July 23, 2010 #

  13. lol yahoo messengerim sdk with girls only no it

    Comment by kelly perry — July 24, 2010 #

  14. @karl – How goes it? We don’t have a date for official US support, yet.

    @rune – Please use our online forum. You can get to it by going to http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger

    @sundar – No, plug-in SDK is not available.

    Comment by Dudley Wong — July 25, 2010 #

  15. I know this is kind of a stupid question but when is Y!M 11 coming? or, will there be new things added to Y!M 10? Or better still, will you please get rid of that Y!Updates tab?

    Comment by Sszecret — July 26, 2010 #

  16. فار س

    Comment by fares — July 29, 2010 #

  17. The real question is will Yahoo messenger ever be rewriten? It still uses the code since its early Yahoo pager days.

    and will there ever be an ipad version?

    Comment by Chris — July 31, 2010 #

  18. Does this api works for android ?

    Comment by Amol — August 6, 2010 #

  19. is this a normal error because people want to know when the error starts and ends

    Comment by jazzy — August 6, 2010 #

  20. what platforms can we use it ?

    Comment by ingilizce kursu — August 7, 2010 #

  21. Here is a feature request for Y! Messenger for Windows. I want to be able to save all the photos in a photo sharing session on the computer or on Flickr at their full size. (At the moment, I can only do this by saving each photo on the computer, one by one, and selecting ‘Transfer full-size photo’. This is really annoying…

    Comment by Petru — August 7, 2010 #

  22. Quick question. Using yahoo web messenger on Ubuntu 10.04, and can’t seem to get my message history. Are my IMss and SMSs being archived, and will I be able to access them once Yahoo resolves the glitch?

    Thanks for your reply.

    Comment by Paul — August 10, 2010 #

  23. very nice!!!

    Comment by pickmbts — August 15, 2010 #

  24. i was wanting too no will you guys evere be comeing out with Yahoo Messenger 11 or Yahoo Messenger 10.5

    i like too see some new things added

    like this about evere newer Messenger now you can use your facebook name too get on it see like yahoo Messenger is the olny one that falling behide right now

    can you plzs update me and went me no when a new beta is comeig out or would be comeing out

    thank you

    David

    oh my IM name id david_thomas4000

    Comment by David — August 16, 2010 #

  25. This is really nice but WHEN will Yahoo update the chatting portion. It would be nice to chat with people from my city (it’s not listed in the US even though it’s a big city).

    Comment by Nicole — August 20, 2010 #

  26. Can you tell me if there is any limit on the number on friends we can add to our friends list on Yahoo! messenger?

    Comment by sunnierstudentt — August 22, 2010 #

  27. by the way the name should be sunnierstudent*

    Comment by sunnierstudent — August 22, 2010 #

  28. I have the same question:
    http://dyndns.moradi.no/a2/2010_07_21_api_key_creation_failed.png

    Comment by vincent hwang — August 22, 2010 #

  29. i have the same question.

    Comment by evelyn colon — August 23, 2010 #

  30. Awesome, open software is the way of the future! BTW just tried out Pingbox. You guys are gods! This is the best feature I’ve ever seen, Pingbox is going to do so much for me. Thank you !!!!

    Comment by Kye — August 25, 2010 #

  31. I have the latest Y! Messenger installed.

    “Congratulations!
    You are currently running the latest Yahoo! Messenger version 10.0.0.1270. *

    Why is the voice getting disabled every 10 mins or so on Yahoo Chat? It’s kind of frustrating. Anybody else experiencing this?

    Comment by Johnny — August 25, 2010 #

  32. lets ya all know vb_packets is returning soon with a new website and chet gonna get propper ddosed yuh

    Comment by vb_packets — September 7, 2010 #

  33. سوال کدام یک از این دو موجود ارزش بیشتری دارند ؟
    الف:افغانی
    ب:عرب

    اگر جواب شما گزینه ب است کاملا درست می باشد
    زیرا افغانی میتونه یه چاهی چیزی بکنه ولی عرب همون هم از دستش بر نمیاد
    id : kiarashmorovat@yahoo.com

    Comment by kiarashmorovat — September 7, 2010 #

  34. منظورم الف بود

    Comment by kiarashmorovat — September 7, 2010 #

  35. السلام عليكم

    Comment by osha — September 12, 2010 #

  36. I have not use the severices yet. But Will commet on in when I do.

    Comment by emmareynolds — September 13, 2010 #

  37. When I use the services I will Comment on it.

    Comment by emmareynolds — September 13, 2010 #

  38. i just downloaded the new yahoo…
    havn’t used the features yet,but i’m
    excited to.i hope i did the right thing
    thanx:)

    Comment by celenasmith — September 22, 2010 #

  39. im also on facebook and looking forward to adding my friends to this….. dont kno how to yet but i’ll learn.thanx again!!!

    Comment by celenasmith — September 22, 2010 #

  40. All I want to know, and have been wanting to know for 15 years is: when is everybody going to have lefthanded(southpaw) fonts. Mine is very slanted to the left. There are alot of us southpaws that we should enjoy that availability. Not discrimination.

    Maggie. Thanks everyone.

    Comment by Maggie — September 26, 2010 #

  41. no local video inour area (ilocos Region) for 4 days now

    Comment by arturo morta — September 27, 2010 #

  42. how do i put the tool bar at the bottom so when i want in all i do is hit it and it takes me to yahoo messenger

    Comment by dolly gray — October 10, 2010 #

  43. I realize the 2concern;I am very x happy to hear that you got your Supra fixed: I remember reading about some of your problems5x !.

    Comment by 熱水器 — October 11, 2010 #

  44. hi

    Comment by oksana — October 13, 2010 #

  45. when will the spam bots be filtered from the chat rooms and from my incoming messages?

    Comment by max — October 13, 2010 #

  46. Usefull article can i have your permision to translate into German for our sites visitors? Thanks

    Comment by Raelene Zuniega — November 10, 2010 #

  47. it was very interesting to read and look through your post, i did not know anything about this before.

    Comment by home made cheese thailand — December 27, 2010 #

  48. this is very interesting

    Comment by thee fab — March 11, 2011 #

  49. i need to access my messenger

    Comment by dora herrera — May 13, 2011 #

  50. Thank you so much for the good advice.

    Comment by rear air suspension for range rover — January 3, 2012 #

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