How can I make a webpage of my favorite Q&A from Yahoo Answers?

Question

My friend has a lot of extra webspace on his account, and would be willing to give me a subdirectory of 20MB space and separate FTP access. Then I could design my own webpages using basic html, and load them up to that website.

As I frequently find a lot of good information on Yahoo Answers, I am wondering how I can make a webpage of my favorite Q&A from Yahoo Answers?

The major problem I see it that the URL addresses of the information on the Yahoo Answers site don't seem to be "stable." If you give someone a link, they email back and say that they got an error message.

So I am wondering what is the best way to organize this data into a webpage that I design and that I upload to my own server ..... ??

Answer 1

All you really need from the question link is the QID value.

For example, when I visit your question, this is the URL I get (spaces added):

http://answers.yahoo.com/ question/ index ;_ylt=AguWNYZvUaiccP5qQ5HRN Kpy7hR.? qid=20070421211908AAsEkk8
All you really need is the base part of the URL, which is this (again, spaces added):

http://answers.yahoo.com/ question/ index

and the question mark, plus the qid= part, and then all the other characters that are to the end of the URL, which are the question ID number:

?qid=20070421211908AAsEkk8

So, the final URL for your question, which would get anyone here, would be (again, spaces added):

http://answers.yahoo.com/ question/ index ?qid=20070421211908AAsEkk8

You can see how this works by visiting my Geocities site:

http://www.geocities.com/dhvrm

Answer 2

Yahoo! offers a very robust API to the Answers service. It's extremely well documented and allows you call make REST calls to the Answers service. It's very cool.
http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/

Answer 3

Yes. You can do that through dot5hosting.com Uploading to your own server may be a problem..

Answer 4

dont use my name, i'll sue oh, and my pic is copyrighted