YQL

Yahoo! Query Language

developer.yahoo.com/yql

Before I continue …

• Get these slides on slideshare.net/ydn

• Play along: developer.yahoo.com/yql

YQL is …

• SQL for the Web

• SELECT * FROM flickr.photos.search

Why would I use it?

• Easy, respectful HTML scraping

• Easy XML/JSON conversion

• Cross-service queries

HTML Scraping

XML to JSON

How to get started

1. Go to developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

2. Grab REST query

3. Call REST query

YQL Console Tour

Code Example

Live Demo!

More Info

• Flickr example in PHP:nakedtechnologist.com/?p=476

• YQL w/ YUI, jQuery, JSONP:developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/03/yql_code_samples_yql_is_easy_to_use.html

• YQL community tables:github.com/yql/yql-tables

• Code sample: gist.github.com/359646