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I thought yahoo were pretty good, hasn't YQL been running for donkeys? And YSlow. Or am I confusing it with another service. I'm sure I used it about 5 or 6 yea
by mattmanser 12y ago
I thought yahoo were pretty good, hasn't YQL been running for donkeys? And YSlow. Or am I confusing it with another service. I'm sure I used it about 5 or 6 years ago.
- nekitamo 12y agoYQL has been falling apart for years now. Sometimes it's down for me for over 48 hours.
- mnutt 12y agoYQL is one of my favorite Yahoo services, but I hesitate to use it in projects due to its unreliability / uncertain future. It would be great to have an open source clone that was deployable to Heroku or similar.
- spullara 12y agoYQL runs a huge amount of the internal infrastructure at Yahoo. I'm surprised you saw it down for 48 hours unless you were blacklisted for abuse. There is an open source clone from eBay that isn't quite the same: http://ql.io http://ql.io
- mnutt 12y agoOh, I wasn't actually the poster who saw it down for 48 hours. I guess it's more that since YQL is accessing a bunch of external services there's a good possibility that something else was going on. As a 3rd party service it's a bit harder to debug, but that's just the nature of things. ql.io looks interesting, I'll check it out.
- saurabhsahni 12y agoYQL shouldn't be down for so long. It's likely that the underlying data source/API you were trying to access was down or your API key/IP address was blocked for exceeding rate limits.
- plorg 12y agoI don't know how it works for outside developers, but I've discovered that they use it heavily for some of their own media projects including, for example, their video product Yahoo Screen. What that means for longevity is probably an open question.