The YP.com Free API is Here!

January 9, 2012

Greg reports on AT&T Interactive finally listening to me 😉

AT&T Interactive has opened up all the content on YP.com to third party developers. That means app developers will have access to YP.com’s 17 million local listings, maps, reviews/ratings and deals for free:

Great list from Greg on free local data set providers.

From Perry Evans in the comments:

It also feels like we’re “racing to the bottom” for core directory data businesses. The value now has to be constructed on top of a quality directory data resource, and this continues to demand that data-centric businesses expand beyond simple license and hosted data services.

I love the developer challenge they are running to get some cool apps created for SXSW. More info at http://developer.yp.com/

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Andrew Shotland

Helped launch Showtime Networks first website. From there to NBC’s Internet division and ran NBC.com, launching some of the first TV to Web experiences. In 2003, helped launch InsiderPages which was acquired by CitySearch in 2006. Since then, helping clients big and small with this strange thing called “SEO”.

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Harry Lerwill January 9, 2012 at 8:44 am

I was suggesting this as far back as October 2010.

http://peaksearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-data-not-brand-that-counts.html
Andrew Shotland January 10, 2012 at 2:42 pm

Great minds Harry. Great minds…
David Mihm January 11, 2012 at 6:58 pm

You may have seen (or maybe not) that we added them to GetListed.org a few weeks back — http://blog.getlisted.org/yp-com-added/ I wonder if we are eligible for the SxSW contest? 🙂
Andrew Shotland January 12, 2012 at 10:13 am

Looks good David. Perhaps we can start a Twitter lobby campaign for you.

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