Yahoo! Open Stack & YQL
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Yahoo! provides various tools and APIs to access data and build web applications. Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) allows developers to select, filter, and manipulate data from web services and turn them into queryable databases. YQL and other tools like Yahoo Pipes make it easier for developers to access and work with data without having to deal with the technical details of individual APIs. Yahoo! also provides user interface libraries like YUI to help build interfaces that work across browsers and devices, and platforms like Yahoo! Publisher API to help reach users.
Yahoo! Open Stack & YQL
- 1. Yahoo! open stack and YQL Saurabh Sahni (@saurabhsahni) Open Hack Mixer, Bangalore, July ‘2011
- 2. To build a web hack you need three things:
- 3. 1. Data 2. Access 3. Interface
- 4. Yahoo! has opened up its data
- 6. Also others
- 7. ProgrammableWeb.Com – 3517 APIs
- 8. The trouble with data: • You need to find data API • Get Access – Signup for key • Find data endpoint • Read docs to learn what parameters you have • Get data in obscure format • Use data after converting and filtering • More APIs you use, more is your annoyance
- 9. To make data accessible, Yahoo! created YQL
- 11. YQL turns web services and data on the web into databases.
- 12. select {what} from {where} where {conditions}
- 13. You can select, filter, sort and limit data and you can even insert, update and delete from it.
- 14. Let’s see it
- 20. YQL has more to it
- 21. There’s also Yahoo Pipes to do this visually
- 23. Data however is not enough.
- 24. You also need working interfaces
- 25. Technologies are easy: HTML, CSS, Javascript
- 26. Making it work on all browsers and OS is tricky
- 27. So, we have YUI!
- 30. You can build and wait for people to come
- 31. Or build where people are already there
- 38. Thank you! Saurabh Sahni h"p://www.saurabhsahni.com h"p://twi"er.com/saurabhsahni h"p://github.com/saurabhsahni h"p://slideshare.net/saurabhsahni