Today we pushed the latest version of YQL live, and it now supports a new “public” endpoint:
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=show%20tables
Unlike the oauth entrypoint, that requires oauth signing and so on, this one needs no signing, no app id, no nothing – just your query. Its that easy.
So you can just run it in a browser: show tables
… and [...]
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 [...]
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”, [...]
Here’s another query to show what kinds of things YQL can do:
select * from local.search where query=”sushi”
and location=”san francisco, ca”
and Rating.AverageRating>4.0
This one applies a combination of remote filtering on the web service (in this case local) and local filtering at the YQL engine. So the query gets all the [...]
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 [...]
