Yahoo! Open Stack & YQL

Yahoo! open stackand YQL Saurabh Sahni (@saurabhsahni) Open Hack Mixer, Bangalore, July ‘2011

To build a web hackyou need threethings:

1.  Data2.  Access3.  Interface

Yahoo! has openedup its data

http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html

Also others

ProgrammableWeb.Com – 3517 APIs

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

To make dataaccessible, Yahoo!created YQL

YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

YQL turns webservices and dataon the web intodatabases.

select {what} from {where} where {conditions}

You can select, filter,sort and limit dataand you can eveninsert, update anddelete from it.

Let’s see it

YQL has more to it

There’s also YahooPipes to do this visually

http://pipes.yahoo.com/

Data however is notenough.

You also needworking interfaces

Technologies areeasy: HTML, CSS,Javascript

Making it work onall browsers and OSis tricky

So, we have YUI!

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

What about reach?

You can build andwait for people tocome

Or build wherepeople are alreadythere

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

Some greatresources

http://developer.yahoo.com

http://www.github.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

http://isithackday.com/hackday-toolbox/

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

Yahoo! Open Stack & YQL

by Saurabh Sahni on Jul 23, 2011

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