We pushed a shiny new (to use Nagesh’s terms) YQL out yesterday and here’s a quick overview of the new things (beyond fixes mainly to the HTML and XHTML handling). Our docs are about to catch up but for those of you interested in the new feature list, here we go:
@var substitution from GET query [...]
Some recent discussion about the weather.forecast table lead to a really great example of mixing Yahoo and external services together.
The original poster wanted to get the forecast from the weather.forecast table for a non-US location. The table itself represents these types of location using a special key. For example, Prague (Czech Republic) is EZXX0012.
A followup [...]
We’ve been asked about this a few times: How can I run YQL from javascript with all this oauth stuff, I just want it to work!?
For real day-to-day use, the answer is you shouldn’t as any Javascript only technique inevitably exposes your shared secret. As with most secure APIs you should go via your own [...]
While we’re still putting the finishing touches to YQL’s launch, I’d like to share a query that highlights a lot of interesting aspects of the service:
SELECT * FROM social.profile WHERE guid IN
(SELECT guid FROM social.connections WHERE owner_guid=me)
| sort(field=”nickname”)
Some things worth noting:
me is a shorthand method to express your “guid”, [...]
I recently talked about one of the projects I’ve been working on at Yahoo!, YQL, at the Yahoo! Open Hack day where hackers had some time to play with it. YDN has just released the presentation I did:
We’re still putting the finishing touches on the system but the documentation and slides have gone up and [...]
Im presenting at the Open Hack Day in London this weekend and as part of it I’ve knocked up a quick example script for executing pipes from Javascript on your web site, and getting the results as an object in a JS function (so you can loop and display the contents for example). You can [...]
This is coming a little late, but I’ve been pretty excited by some of my recent work in a new team at Yahoo!, namely the Local Events Browser. It’s an Ajax heavy super-mashup across a lot of REST APIs. What makes the application “cool� (IMHO) is that is all client-side [...]
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