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Table A.2
API Object Operations
(Continued)
Operation
Description
getReport
Retrieves a report.
getReportFromBookmark
Retrieves a bookmarked report.
Retrieves a bookmarked report. New parameters include Offset
and Limit.
getReportFromBookmarkV2
Retrieves the available reports of a user/account.
getReports
getTrackingCode
Retrieves the tracking script for a project.
getScenarios
Retrieves scenarios for a project.
approveOrder
Changes the status of a previously recorded pending sale action to
an approved sale.
Changes the order's (sale action) amount or currency.
changeOrder
Deletes an order that was previously recorded in the system.
cancelOrder
ScheduleReportJobStandard
Returns statistical data for a project.
ScheduleReportJobBookmark
Returns statistical data for a project.
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the Api works like any other Api: each call is initiated by a request from you
(the client) and obtains a response from the server (Yahoo!). Api calls are never initi-
ated from the server to the client. each Api call has a method name, which is one of
the operations described in table A.2.
the Api only supports the simple object Access protocol (soAp), so you encode
your calls using soAp.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SOAP is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of
web services. It relies on XML as its message format and usually relies on other Application layer
protocols, most notably remote procedure calls (RPC) and HTTP for message negotiation and
transmission.
You can find the Yahoo! Web Analytics Web services Api Wsdl here:
http://www.indextools.com/download/IndexToolsApiV3.wsdl
Yahoo! will release a new Url once it updates the address from the indextools
location. note that Yahoo! uses a number of custom types for its soAp implementation,
which are described in the Wsdl schema.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
The WSDL is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing web services.
