1. YQL
Kevin Murphy
CMPS 183

2. YQL
“The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services.”
Uses Open Data Tables
Can read a variety of file types
HTML, XML, JSON, RSS, Atom, and microformat
Returns results in XML or JSON

3. Open Data Tables Example: Select/Insert/Delete Elements
Select/Insert/Delete Elements
Familiar to SQL users
Contain the urls, inputs, and executes elements

4. Open Data Tables Execute Element Contains JavaScript
Can run on Yahoo servers
Login to accounts
Manipulate Data

5. Uses Read and post Twitter messages Explore Netflix movie library
Make your own

6. Resources http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/