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Lua is still very much an “academic” language—everyone seems to whip their own version to suit their needs. But it seems kinda interesting. Actually, I’m interested in taking a look at the C API. Later.

Anyway, not that I expect anyone to use it, but I whipped a Lua API for Yahoo! Search Web Services. Needs refactoring, I realize. Requires LuaSocket, and Roberto’s classic Lua-only XML parser.

Now, you can do stuff like this:

require "YahooSearch"
obj = YahooSearch.WebSearch('premshree')
print(obj[0]['Title']) -- title of first result
print(obj[2]['Url'])   -- url of third result

Maybe I’ll try doing some dumb-ass wxLua thingie later.