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 [...]
Im really pleased to announce that my team released YQL today as part of the larger YOS 1.0 release. You can read some docs here, and even better, give it a test drive using our console.
Yahoo! makes a lot of structured data available to developers through its web services, like Flickr and Local, and through [...]
Everyday as I drive to work I go past 2 gas stations that are about 1 block apart. Every since Ive lived in the area the “76″ as been incredibly expensive and the gap just keeps getting bigger compared to another gas station on the same street, on the same side of the street, just [...]
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”, [...]
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