1 Hadoop India Summit 2011

Saurabh Sahni Developer, Hacker, Evangelist

YQL is a Cloud web service and SQL-Like Language

Filter, combine, tweak data across hundreds of Web Services.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

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SELECT * FROM Internet " Building Queries and Stuff

Mashup with 1000+ APIs on web

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INSERT INTO bitly.shorten (login, apiKey, longUrl)

VALUES (’ME', 'API_KEY', 'http://yahoo.com')

Running Queries - INSERT Query Structure

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UPDATE social.profile.status

SET status="Using YQL UPDATE"

WHERE guid=“NJFIDHVPVVISDXZKT7UKED2WHU”

Running Queries - UPDATE Query Structure

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SELECT * FROM flickr.photos.search WHERE (lat, lon) IN (SELECT centroid.latitude, centroid.longitude

FROM geo.places WHERE text="SFO")

Running Queries – Sub-selects with the IN clause

Translating Tweets to Hindi

Storage in Cloud

Storage in Cloud

Have An API?

Make your API YQL Accessible with Open Data Tables

Add YQL tables for any data or API on the Web

Join 100s of other API providers

1000+ Examples: http://github.com/yql/yql-tables

More - http://www.datatables.org/

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Extend open tables - Run server-side javascript on cloud

Access APIs that require authentication - Netflix OAuth, FlickrAuth, Google AuthSub

Augment data - City / state to APIs that just return zip code

Create APIs from web pages -  Celebrity birthdays scraped from IMDB

YQL Execute

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Build applications faster, that run faster

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Questions?

Saurabh Sahni @saurabhsahni www.saurabhsahni.com