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What is YQL?
Web apps and web services multiply like rabbits. They’re all fun to play with (like rabbits) and fun to integrate into other projects (unlike rabbits). But learning a new API every other day isn’t feasible or fun. And that’s the problem the Yahoo Query Language (YQL) is out to solve.
Think of YQL as the API for the web, the one API to rule them all. It’s not a hard one to learn, so let’s get you up to speed right now!
How do I use it?
Yahoo has put together a pretty nice console for us to flex our muscles with YQL. Load up that console, and let’s explore it.
In the right sidebar, you can choose a “table” in the “database”; a sample query will show up in the statement box at the top. To the right of the statement box, you can see what the corresponsing REST query would. Below, you have the data returned from the query; you can receive data in either XML or JSON.
So, let’s try a query!
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