Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Yahoo development session notes: YQL, Flickr, OAuth, YAP

A few notes regarding Yahoo session:
YQL - very nice API, successor of the Yahoo pipes. With you could read and parse user social data, parse RSS or Twiter feeds. Feature that I most liked is possibility to parse recent multiple RSS feeds and extract information you need with a simple query like this:

select title from rss where url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories" and title like '%GM%'
Currently it's limited up to 10000 requests a day from a single IP address.

OAth - yahoo platform for authentication, standard that all big web guys( Facebook, Google, etc. ) are going to adopt. Very nice feature for web sites that don't want to 'outsource' authentication.

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