wtanaka.praya.yahoo
Class YahooUtils

java.lang.Object
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public class YahooUtils

extends java.lang.Object

Utility methods for interacting with Yahoo!

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Version:

$Name: $ $Date: 2001/10/22 08:19:35 $

Author:

$Author: wtanaka $

Constructor Summary

YahooUtils()

Method Summary

static java.net.URL

getIconURLForUser(java.lang.String id) Attempts to get a photo for the given yahoo username.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, registerNatives, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

YahooUtils

public YahooUtils()

Method Detail

getIconURLForUser

public static java.net.URL getIconURLForUser(java.lang.String id)

Attempts to get a photo for the given yahoo username. Does this by fetching profiles.yahoo.com/id and searching for the image in the returned page. If the parse fails, returns http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ppl/no_photo.gif

Parameters:

id - the yahoo ID.

Returns:

a url for an image.