With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database(developer.yahoo.net)

27 pointsby timtrueman17 anni fa8 comments

developer.yahoo.net

With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/04/yql_execute.html

8 comments

tectonic17 anni fa

Very cool. How do you think this compares to http://parselets.com?

vicaya17 anni fa

uggh, yet another xml api. Either use JSON or something like Thrift or ProtoBuf.

IsaacSchlueter17 anni fa

Look closer.

YQL can output results in either JSON or XML. It just uses XML for table definitions, and as one of several ways to extract data from web services.

sh1mmer17 anni fa

Also does JSONP for use in the front-end.

It would be nice, vicaya, if you fact checked before throwing stones.

vicaya17 anni fa

One needs to deal with large amount of XML for non-pre-canned query. That's a fact.

vicaya17 anni fa

Well, majority of the meat/bindings/scripts etc is written in XML. If you want to use something other than prewritten samples, you'll have to deal with XML. Period.

IsaacSchlueter17 anni fa

So you would not want to use any service that uses XML for any purpose, even if it could output its results in JSON?

That seems irrational.

TweedHeads17 anni fa

Hmm, interesting...

Papers for Web Query Language on Google

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~websql/www-conf/wsql/PAPER267.htm...

http://www.w3.org/TandS/QL/QL98/pp/wql.html