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Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3
- prepend 8y agoI will miss this like I miss Yahoo Pipes. I really just want a grep for the internet that runs at scale. With open logic so I know exactly what it’s doing.
- onli 8y ago> like I miss Yahoo Pipes. I try to scratch that itch with https://www.pipes.digital/ https://www.pipes.digital/. It's a bit different and not fully complete, but it's also a flow and block based visual editor that can manipulate RSS/XML data. Maybe have a look?
- zimmund 8y agoLooks very nice! At $20/mo there are alternatives (Zapier comes to mind) that may cover your needs as well. There's also Node-RED for those wanting something self-hosted (though it won't be as straight-forward). The interesting thing about Pipes for me was that I could correct small things quite easy (and read my feeds later using Google Reader -oh, those were the times!-), and besides it being free it was maintained by a "familiar" site. At this point I'd rather invest my time in a tool I can control!
- giancarlostoro 8y agoAre there open source alternatives to this? I only found out about it once it was announced it would be getting shut down sometime back. It seems interesting at the very least. I feel like someone could remake this, it's basically SQL for "requests" or something similar or am I wrong?
- kkarakk 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database#APIs_and_graph_query-programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database#APIs_and_graph_...
- thakoppno 8y agoOne big part of it is vespa, which is open sourced. https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa
- 11235813213455 8y agoAnyway, I prefer CSS selectors nowadays for querying html var text=await fetch('https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18785255').then(r=>r.text()) var d=new DOMParser().parseFromString(text, 'text/html'); d.body.querySelector('.comment-tree').rows
- giancarlostoro 8y agoYeah I hadn't even considered just using JS. Makes sense if you're in the browser. Maybe with headless Chrome this is much more likely a solution.
- niutech 8y agoThere is https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus, but it is not a complete YQL service, e.g. it does not support data tables (https://github.com/yql/yql-tables https://github.com/yql/yql-tables).
- natecavanaugh 8y agoI wonder if this can/will be open sourced in some way. It was always such a cool idea, it'd be a shame for it to just disappear.
- niutech 8y agoThere is already https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus
- paulie_a 8y agoThey might as well announce Yahoo will be retired. There is nothing left at this point.
- gftttgggfffddd 8y agoFantasy sports, email, and news.
- paulie_a 8y agoSo fake sports, massively hacked email, and news aggregation from other sources.
- jsjohnst 8y agoFeel the same way and that’s coming from someone who used to drive this car: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/sets/72157633260803469/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/sets/721576332...
- jwilbs 8y agoI’d love to hear the story behind that, haha. Were you paid to drive that? Were you just a huge Yahoo fan? An early employee?
- jsjohnst 8y agoThe backstory was Yahoo! Buzz Marketing paid for the wrapping on their car for several employees they selected over the years. You didn’t get paid for having it done, but there were unofficial perks that came with it (along with several strict rules, like something as simple as getting pulled over could cause you to be terminated, depending on circumstances).
- gdsdfe 8y agoWow! I just realized that Yahoo still exists!