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A few years ago, following the explosion of custom web APIs from various services around the world, Yahoo! launched the YQL service, which allows to query data from a variety of different providers with a unified Yahoo Query Language.

Having worked with the APIs of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube and more, I very much enjoy the idea. However, I do not see it mentioned often, and of course this is one of those efforts that makes sense when enough people follow it and expose their API through this layer.

Are there some statitics of usage? Or some declarations from Yahoo about the destiny of YQL?

I would also be interested in hearing your experience if you have tried it directly.

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This book amazon.com/YQL-Definitive-Guide-Guilherme-Chapiewski/dp/… will be published in 2013, so it is a sign that it is alive, I guess. – Emmad Kareem Nov 6 '12 at 11:41
Programmers.SE doesn't speculate on future events. Have you tried asking Yahoo? – Robert Harvey Nov 6 '12 at 20:34
This community is really becoming annoying. I asked for statistics or declarations from Yahoo, not divining the future from a crystal ball. The comment about the upcoming book was useful too. But sadly there seems to be a zealotry about closing questions... Even though in the related links I see at least three questions "Is X still used?" that are alive and open. :-( – Andrea Nov 7 '12 at 8:30

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