USC Yahoo! BOSS, YAP and YQL Overview

Yahoo! Open Technologies Jonathan LeBlanc – Technology Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network – Partner Integrations Blog: www.nakedtechnologist.com Twitter: jcleblanc

Build Your Own Search Service

( BOSS )

How Do I Use It? Development and Stuff

BOSS – Requesting Data

http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{service}/v1/

{query}?appid={yourBOSSappid}&[params]

Params

• start • format

• count • callback

• lang • sites

• region

What Can I Build With This Thing? BOSS Examples in Practice

New Presentation Models

Client / Browser Integrations

New Ranking Models

Vertical/niche search products

Yahoo! Application Platform

( YAP )

YAP Applications What’s a YAP Application?

Runs on YAP

Supports 2- & 3- legged OAuth

Supports OpenSocial 0.8 JavaScript APIs

Open Applications

Open Application - Views Small View Large View

Runs off platform

Supports 2- & 3-legged OAuth

Does not contain views

Requires users to authenticate session

OAuth Applications

Y!OS Components How does it work?

Y!OS Components – Open Authentication (OAuth)

2-legged & 3-legged OAuth

Consumer / Shared Secret keys

Similar to proprietary BBAuth, but open standard

http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/

Allows secured access to private data

Whitelisted components

Will begin integrating into OSML

http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/yml

Y!OS Components – Yahoo Markup Language (YML)

Social Directory (read)

Contacts (read)

User Status (read / write)

Updates (read / write)

http://developer.yahoo.com/social

Y!OS Components – Social APIs

HTML / CSS / JavaScript securer

Enforces standards

Includes JSLint (http://www.jslint.com)

One of the first to integrate Caja

http://code.google.com/p/google-caja

http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/caja-support.html

Y!OS Components – Caja

Caja - IFrame Security Concerns

IFrame Concerns

Drive-by downloads

No real content restrictions

Other known exploits

Caja Implementation

Blacklist all / Whitelist some model

Secure OpenSocial container

PHP SDK Currently Available Open and OAuth Applications ActionScript 3 SDK Currently Available Open Applications Y!OS Components – SDKs

Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) SELECT * FROM Internet

SELECT * FROM Internet

SELECT myColumn, myTitle FROM myTable(0, 50) WHERE myColumn = 'value' AND myTitle = 'title‘ LIMIT 3 OFFSET 10 | sort (field='myColumn') | reverse () YQL – Query Structure

YQL Command: SHOW tables (79 Standard / 222 with community) YQL – Available Tables <table>atom</table> <table>csv</table> <table>feed</table> <table>flickr.photos.exif</table> <table>flickr.photos.info</table> <table>flickr.photos.interestingness</table> <table>flickr.photos.recent</table> <table>flickr.photos.search</table> <table>flickr.photos.sizes</table> <table>flickr.places</table> <table>flickr.places.info</table> <table>geo.places</table> <table>geo.places.ancestors</table> <table>geo.places.belongtos</table> <table>geo.places.children</table> <table>geo.places.neighbors</table> <table>geo.places.parent</table> <table>geo.places.siblings</table> <table>geo.placetypes</table> <table>gnip.activity</table> <table>html</table> <table>json</table> <table>local.search</table> <table>microformats</table> <table>music.artist.id</table> <table>music.artist.popular</table> <table>music.artist.search</table> <table>music.artist.similar</table> <table>music.release.artist</table> <table>music.release.id</table> <table>music.release.popular</table> <table>music.release.search</table> <table>music.track.id</table> <table>music.track.popular</table> <table>music.track.search</table> <table>music.video.category</table> <table>music.video.id</table> <table>music.video.popular</table> <table>music.video.search</table> <table>music.video.similar</table> <table>mybloglog.community.find</table> <table>mybloglog.member</table> <table>mybloglog.member.contacts</table> <table>mybloglog.member.newwithcontacts</table> <table>mybloglog.member.newwithme</table> <table>mybloglog.members.find</table> <table>mybloglog.stats.find</table> <table>rss</table> <table>search.images</table> <table>search.news</table> <table>search.siteexplorer.inlinks</table> <table>search.siteexplorer.pages</table> <table>search.spelling</table> <table>search.suggest</table> <table>search.termextract</table> <table>search.web</table> <table>social.connections</table> <table>social.contacts</table> <table>social.presence</table> <table>social.profile</table> <table>social.updates</table> <table>upcoming.category</table> <table>upcoming.country</table> <table>upcoming.events</table> <table>upcoming.events.bestinplace</table> <table>upcoming.groups</table> <table>upcoming.metro</table> <table>upcoming.state</table> <table>upcoming.user</table> <table>upcoming.venue</table> <table>uritemplate</table> <table>weather.forecast</table> <table>xml</table> <table>yahoo.identity</table> <table>yap.setsmallview</table> <table>yql.admin.blockedips</table> <table>yql.admin.blockedscripts</table>

YQL Command: DESC social.connections YQL – Table Contents

YQL - Running a Query

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/yql?[params]

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?[params]

Params

q=[QUERY]

format=[xml / json]

callback=[function name]

diagnostics=[true / false]

YQL – Output Types

YQL Open Data Tables Structure the internet

YQL – Open Data Tables

YQL – Using an Open Data Table USE ‘{TABLE URL}’ as digg; SELECT * FROM digg WHERE topic=‘apple’;

YQL Execute Augment the Internet

End Result What’s this data going to do for me?

Getting Started BOSS Main Page http://developer.yahoo.com/boss Y!OS Main Page http://developer.yahoo.com/yos YQL Console http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console Developer Forums http://developer.yahoo.com/forums