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Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3

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I 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.

> like I miss Yahoo Pipes.

I try to scratch that itch with 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?

Looks 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!

Are 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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database#APIs_and_graph_...

One big part of it is vespa, which is open sourced.

https://github.com/vespa-engine/vespa

Anyway, 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

Yeah 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.

There is 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).

They might as well announce Yahoo will be retired. There is nothing left at this point.

Fantasy sports, email, and news.

So fake sports, massively hacked email, and news aggregation from other sources.

Feel the same way and that’s coming from someone who used to drive this car:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/sets/721576332...

I’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?

The 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).

Wow! I just realized that Yahoo still exists!

I 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.

There is already https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus

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