{"id":7529,"date":"2014-05-21T05:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2014-05-21T05:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:01:42","slug":"yahoo-yql-web-service-json-another-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/yahoo-yql-web-service-json-another-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Another Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/JSON\/YQL\/search_member.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Another Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/JSON\/YQL\/Yql_member_Search.jpg\" title=\"Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Primer Tutorial\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Another Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a tutorial that re-introduces you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL <a href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=YQL' title='Yahoo YQL tutorials here'>tutorials<\/a> on this blog.   The name is the way it is because it simplified the API aspects of its functionality for the developer to concentrate on SQL, and I&#8217;m really supportive of this concept.  You don&#8217;t have to output in JSON, as other data forms like XML are acceptable.  Let&#8217;s see what Wikipedia says about YQL below. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) is an SQL-like query language created by Yahoo! as part of their Developer Network. YQL is designed to retrieve and manipulate data from APIs through a single Web interface, thus allowing mashups that enable developers to create their own applications.[1]<\/p>\n<p>Initially launched in October 2008 with access to Yahoo APIs,[2] February 2009 saw the addition of open data tables from third parties such as Google Reader, the Guardian, and The New York Times.[3] 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&#8217;s servers for free.[3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So this tutorial uses a YQL web service into the data emanating from its links to the Member and Constituency database of UK federal Government business.  You fill in search words to search for Member and Constituency data at the Yahoo YQL ukparliament database tables.<\/p>\n<p>The two big PHP functions of use are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank title='file_get_contents' href='http:\/\/us1.php.net\/file_get_contents'>file_get_contents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='json_decode' href='http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.json-decode.php'>json_decode<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good links for information regarding this tutorial (thanks) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank href='http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yql\/guide\/two-minute-tutorial.html' title='YQL Two Minute Tutorial'>YQL Two Minute Tutorial<\/a> from Yahoo<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yahoo!_Query_Language' title='Yahoo! Query Language'>Yahoo! Query Language<\/a> from Wikipedia, as per quote above<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank href='http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yql\/' title='YQL Home Page'>YQL Home Page<\/a> from Yahoo<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank href='https:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yql\/console\/?q=select%20*%20from%20flickr.photos.interestingness%2820%29&#038;env=store:\/\/datatables.org\/alltableswithkeys#h=SELECT+*+from+ukparliament.commons.members+WHERE+query%3D%22brown%22+AND+member-name+LIKE+%27rt+hon%25%27' title='YQL ukparliament help'>YQL ukparliament help<\/a> from Yahoo<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='YQL JSON Parsing Help' href='http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/forum\/YQL\/yql-query-intermittently-returns-no-results\/1374521623593-fa4a3519-10ae-4a17-8fd4-6de45a159d6f'>YQL JSON Parsing Help<\/a> from YQL forum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another tool you should have in your armoury for jobs like this is the online JSON validator <a target=_blank title='JSON validator online' href='http:\/\/jsonlint.com\/'>here<\/a>.  A generic JSON approach to issues could be:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Type the URL you were given into a web browser address bar and have a look at it<\/li>\n<li>Type the URL you were given into http:\/\/jsonlint.com\/ and have it validated<\/li>\n<li>Understand in your own mind what would be different about 1. to make it suitable<\/li>\n<li>Incorporate findings of 3. into massaging of data between file_get_contents and json_decode<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is a link to some downloadable HTML programming source code which you may want to rename to <a target=_blank title='search_member.html' href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/JSON\/YQL\/search_member.html_GETME\">search_member.html<\/a> which calls some downloadable PHP programming source code which you may want to rename to <a target=_blank title='search_member.php' href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/JSON\/YQL\/search_member.php_GETME\">search_member.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d7529' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d7529\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=JSON\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d7529' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a tutorial that re-introduces you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on previous YQL tutorials on this blog. 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