Yahoo! Hack University: Data APIs to use and Abuse
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Red Hot DataWhere did you get that API?
Hack U - Washington 2011Ted DRAKE
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Developer.Yahoo.Com/YQL
Where am I? •Get Geo Locations:
Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Yahoo! PlaceMaker, Google Places, Place Cast, BuddyCloud
•Share Locations: Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Spot2.be, OpenGeoTracker
•Mapping: Yahoo! Maps, Open StreetMaps, Google Elevations, Koordinates GeoReach, Spot2.be, Google Latitudes
What can I see?
•News and Events:Everyblock,, Daylife, Upcoming
•Local Shops:Yahoo! Local, Yelp, GeoReach
•Traffic:Yahoo! Traffic, SF Muni
It bleeds - It leads News
•News:Yahoo! News, Finance, BOSS news search, New York Times, NPR
•Trends:Daylife, OneRiot
•Government Data: Sunlight Labs, Drumbone, Good Guide, Transparency Data, LittleSis, U.N. Data
It bleeds - It leads Sports
•Sports Data: Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
•Social Athletes:Active, Fan Feedr, OpenFooty, Motorsport Reg, Golf, Run Saturday
It bleeds - It leads Weather
•Weather Data: Yahoo! Weather , Weather Underground, NWS
• Environment: First Look, OpenEco, Amee, GDAC [YQL], USGS
I just ...•Social Networks: Facebook, Four Square, Flickr
, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Twilio, FriendFeed, Gowalla, MeetUp
•Connections: Yahoo Mail / Messenger /Contacts
•Shoutouts:Yahoo! Meme, Twitter, Google Buzz, Social Graph
•Sharing:Face, Bu.mp, Notify Me, Whoozy,Twitrpix
I need a beat•Music Data:
Yahoo! Music, Billboard, BBC Music, last.fm, iTunes, ArtistData
• Tickets:Ticketfly, Ticketmaster
•Movies:The Movie Database, Netflix
•Music Engines: Bandcamp, Grooveshark, eMusic, JamBase, Spotify, Soundcloud, 8tracks
•Comics: ComicVine
Are we there yet?•Airplanes:
Runway Finder, Flig.ht, FlightCaster, FlightView[$], Flight Wise [$], Pidgets
• Locations:Flickr Places, Snapfish, To.uri.st
• Translations: Forvo
• Travel Guides:Yahoo! Travel, NileGuide, Dopplr, Lonely Planet
•Reservations:Hotwire, GroopBuy, Kayak
• Trip Plans:TripIt
I’m learning•Contextual and Semantic:
Zemanta, Open Calais
•Search: BOSS, Hakia, WolframAlpha
•References:Biblia, Yahoo! Spelling Suggestions, Yahoo! Answers, Thesaurus, Wikipedia
•Science: ChemCaster, DeepDyve, Biodiversity, NCBI, PLOS, cPath, AMEE
•Astronomy: HelioViewer
•Archeology: OpenContext
• Legal: WebLaws
•Reading:Feedbooks, Text To Speech
I’m learning
I am, I have, I owe• Personal Finance:
Intuit
• Real Estate: Trulia,Fizber, Zillow, Walk Score, Rent Rent, Rentrange
• Shopping: StickyBits, Zappos, Etsy, ShopZilla
• Goodstuff: All for Good, Kiva, Donors Choose, Petfinder
What is my phone doing?
•On the phone:Intel CPU, Prowl, Ericsson
•Carriers:Sprint Telephony, Orange Voice
•Specs:WURFL, Handset Detection
Resources•Programmable Web
•Most of these APIs are available via Y.Q.L.
•Mashable
•Hacker News