notes: Bayjax Meetup (7/27) @ Yahoo! Sunnyvale: Jon Leblanc on YQL + YUI

 

Jon Leblanc talking about YQL + YUI
Jon Leblanc talking about YQL + YUI

 

 

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/BayJax/calendar/10852424/

jonleblanc on using yui w/ yql
– “select * from internet” gets a laugh
– the console (developer.yahoo.com/yql/console) is an easy way to get started w/ yql
– there are ~80 tables of y! data
– 253 community tables on github.com/yql
– yql execute
– yql insert|update|delete
– christian heilmann’s “geomaker” tool scrapes a url, extracts locations, and plots them on a map
– github.com/jsleblanc/yql-utilities
— js-yql-display
— yql can return jsonp and jsonpx
— yql plays well w/ yui
– questions
— rate limiting
— 1000/hr/ip w/ oauth
— w/ oauth 100k/day/ip
— caching?
— defaults to 5 min
— build your own table or append a var to url to break the cache

jonleblanc on using yui w/ yql

– the console (developer.yahoo.com/yql/console) is an easy way to get started w/ yql

– there are ~80 tables of y! data

– 253 community tables on github.com/yql

– yql execute

– yql insert|update|delete

– christian heilmann’s “geomaker” tool scrapes a url, extracts locations, and plots them on a map

– github.com/jcleblanc/yql-utilities

— js-yql-display

— yql can return jsonp and jsonpx

— yql plays well w/ yui

– links are on http://speakerrate.com/jcleblanc

– questions

— rate limiting

— 1000/hr/ip w/ oauth

— w/ oauth 100k/day/ip

— caching?

— defaults to 5 min

— build your own table or append a var to url to break the cache