Yahoo Query Language: Difference between revisions

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Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Yahoo-Launches-YQL-Execute-Updates-YSlow-660481/ |work=[[eWeek]] |title=Yahoo Launches YQL Execute, Updates YSlow |last=Kolakowski |first=Nicholas |date=April 29, 2009 }}</ref> February 2009 saw the addition of open [[data table]]s from third parties such as [[Google Reader]], the ''[[Guardian newspaper|Guardian]]'', and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="rww"/> Some of these APIs still require an [[API key]] to access them. On April 29th of 2009, Yahoo introduced the capability to execute the tables of data built through YQL using [[JavaScript]] run on the company's servers for free.<ref name="rww">{{cite news |url=http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/theres_a_great_amount_of.php |work=[[ReadWriteWeb]] |last=O'Dell |first=Jolie |date=May 2, 2009 |title=Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute }}</ref>

One of the Most common use of YQL on internet is [[YQL_Page_Scraping|Page Scraping]]. Thats is why people say that YQL has power of doing, is possible too buildo your own [[open data table]] at yahoo.

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SELECT * FROM Internet