Using an API? Checkout Yahoo! Query Language
Description of Yahoo Query Language
The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services
With YQL you can convert any web content into an API!!!
How does that work??
- Your client-side javascript makes JSONP requests to YQL
- YQL retrieves the web content
- YQL applies your parser
- YQL returns formatted XML or JSON
YQL lets you create an API where there was none before
Peter Reinhardt shares his experiences on
Building a Movie Showtimes API
http://blog.rein.pk/2012/05/building-api-where-one-doesnt-exist.html
Make sure to checkout the Yahoo Developer Network Console, where you can play with the Query Language.
Great to see more and more developers developing a “playground” for future developers!
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