A basic Ruby Wrapper for interacting programatically with YQL API.

The idea for this library came while attending the world’s first Sciencehackday (@sciencehackday) in London - www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/science-hack-day-at-the-guardian.

Most of the people during science hack day were using YQL to fetch or post their data and some were using rails, so I thought it would be cool to have a ruby library that can provide interface to YQL to do a bunch of things programatically. And I ended up hacking together and releasing version 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 during the event.

1. Add Unit Tests

2. Add oauth

3. Add YQL table creation

4. Add YQL update / insert / delete operations

sudo gem source –add rubygems.org

sudo gem install yql

require ‘rubygems’

require ‘yql’

yql = Yql::Client.new

• Query builder takes table as mandatory parameter.

query = Yql::QueryBuilder.new ‘yelp.review.search’

query.to_s #=> “select * from yelp.review.search”

query.find #=> “select * from yelp.review.search limit 1”

query.limit = 4

query.to_s #=> “select * from yelp.review.search limit 4”

query.find_all #=> “select * from yelp.review.search”

• Conditions for a query can be either provided as a string or a hash just like rails

query.conditions = “term like ‘%pizza%’”

query.to_s #=> “select * from yelp.review.search where term=‘%pizza%’”

query.conditions = {:term => ‘pizza’, :location => ‘london’, ‘ywsid’ => ‘6L0Lc-yn1OKMkCKeXLD4lg’}

query.to_s #=> “select * from yelp.review.search where term=‘pizza’ and location=‘london’ and ywsid= ‘6L0Lc-yn1OKMkCKeXLD4lg’”

query.select = ‘user_photo_url, state’

yql.query = query

response = yql.get

• the above method call will give an xml output, set the yql client format to json like so

yql.format = ‘json’

response = yql.get #=> Yql::Response object

response.show

• to print the xml output on console

response.show.to_s

query.unique = ‘name’

query.to_s #=> “select title, Rating, LastReviewIntro from yelp.review.search where ywsid=‘6L0Lc-yn1OKMkCKeXLD4lg’ and term=‘pizza’ and location=‘london’ | unique(field=‘name’)”

query.tail = 4

query.to_s #=> “select title, Rating, LastReviewIntro from yelp.review.search where ywsid=‘6L0Lc-yn1OKMkCKeXLD4lg’ and term=‘pizza’ and location=‘london’ | unique(field=‘name’) | tail(count=4)”

query.reorder_pipe_command :from => 1, :to => 0

query.to_s #=> “select title, Rating, LastReviewIntro from yelp.review.search where ywsid=‘6L0Lc-yn1OKMkCKeXLD4lg’ and term=‘pizza’ and location=‘london’ | tail(count=4) | unique(field=‘name’)”

yql.format = ‘json’

response = yql.get #=> Yql::Response object

• to print the xml output on console

response.show.to_s

query.per_page = 10

query.current_page = 1

yql.query = query

response = yql.get #=> Yql::Response object

• To describe a table and see its required parameters, etc.

query = Yql::QueryBuilder.describe_table(‘yelp.review.search’)

• To see all the table sources and their names in YQL

query = Yql::QueryBuilder.show_tables

yql.query = query

response = yql.get #=> Yql::Response object

response.show

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2014 Nasir Jamal

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