Yahoo! Hack University: Data APIs to use and Abuse

Red Hot DataWhere did you get that API?

Hack U - Washington 2011Ted DRAKE

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Developer.Yahoo.Com/YQL

Where am I? •Get Geo Locations:

Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Yahoo! PlaceMaker, Google Places, Place Cast, BuddyCloud

•Share Locations: Yahoo! Fire Eagle, Spot2.be, OpenGeoTracker

•Mapping: Yahoo! Maps, Open StreetMaps, Google Elevations, Koordinates GeoReach, Spot2.be, Google Latitudes

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/

http://placecast.net/developer/documentation_api.php

http://buddycloud.com/cms/node/46

http://developer.yahoo.com/fireeagle/

http://spot2.be/api

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/opengeotracker/wiki/API

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/elevation/

http://help.koordinates.com/faqs/api

http://georeachserver.appspot.com/a/index.html%2523/dev/

http://spot2.be/api

http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/

http://developer.yahoo.com/fireeagle/

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/

What can I see?

•News and Events:Everyblock,, Daylife, Upcoming

•Local Shops:Yahoo! Local, Yelp, GeoReach

•Traffic:Yahoo! Traffic, SF Muni

http://www.everyblock.com/apidocs/

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/daylife

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/


http://developer.yahoo.com/local/

http://www.yelp.com/developers

http://georeachserver.appspot.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/traffic/

http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asite/nextmunidata.htm

http://twiki.corp.yahoo.com/view/NewsSearch/LocalNewsAPI

http://www.yelp.com/developers


It bleeds - It leads News

•News:Yahoo! News, Finance, BOSS news search, New York Times, NPR

•Trends:Daylife, OneRiot

•Government Data: Sunlight Labs, Drumbone, Good Guide, Transparency Data, LittleSis, U.N. Data

http://news.yahoo.com/rss

http://www.xignite.com/xNews.asmx

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/best_sellers_api

http://www.npr.org/api/index

http://developer.daylife.com/

http://oneriotdevelopernetwork.com/

http://services.sunlightlabs.com/

http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Drumbone_API/

http://developer.goodguide.com/

http://transparencydata.com/api/

http://api.littlesis.org/documentation

http://www.undata-api.org/

It bleeds - It leads Sports

•Sports Data: Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports

•Social Athletes:Active, Fan Feedr, OpenFooty, Motorsport Reg, Golf, Run Saturday

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/rss

http://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/

http://developer.active.com/

http://developer.fanfeedr.com/

http://www.footytube.com/openfooty/karma.php


http://www.golffacility.com/api/crmteetimeapi.asmx

http://www.runsaturday.com/About_Us/Developers


It bleeds - It leads Weather

•Weather Data: Yahoo! Weather , Weather Underground, NWS

• Environment: First Look, OpenEco, Amee, GDAC [YQL], USGS

http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/

http://www.3tier.com/en/products/

https://www.openeco.org/developer

http://my.amee.com/developers/wiki/RealTimeElectricity

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=show%252520tables&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys%2523h=SELECT%252520*%252520FROM%252520gdacs.current%252520WHERE%252520query%25253D%252527earthquakes%257Ccyclones%257Cfloods%257Cvolcanoes%252527

http://gisdata.usgs.gov/XMLWebServices2/

http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

I just ...•Social Networks: Facebook, Four Square, Flickr

, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Twilio, FriendFeed, Gowalla, MeetUp

•Connections: Yahoo Mail / Messenger /Contacts

•Shoutouts:Yahoo! Meme, Twitter, Google Buzz, Social Graph

•Sharing:Face, Bu.mp, Notify Me, Whoozy,Twitrpix

http://developers.facebook.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/foursquare-api/web/api-documentation

http://developer.yahoo.com/flickr/

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api

http://developer.linkedin.com/index.jspa

http://www.twilio.com/

http://friendfeed.com/api/documentation

http://gowalla.com/api/docs

http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/

http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/

http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/

http://developer.yahoo.com/social/contacts/

http://developer.yahoo.com/meme/

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/

https://code.google.com/apis/buzz/

http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/lookup.html

http://developers.face.com/docs/

http://bu.mp/api

http://wiki.notify.me/API/REST_API

http://api.centroidmedia.com/

http://twitrpix.com/api/0

http://developer.yahoo.com/meme/

http://developer.yahoo.com/social/contacts/

http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/

http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/


I need a beat•Music Data:

Yahoo! Music, Billboard, BBC Music, last.fm, iTunes, ArtistData

• Tickets:Ticketfly, Ticketmaster

•Movies:The Movie Database, Netflix

•Music Engines: Bandcamp, Grooveshark, eMusic, JamBase, Spotify, Soundcloud, 8tracks

•Comics: ComicVine

http://developer.yahoo.com/music/

http://developer.billboard.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers

http://www.last.fm/api/intro

http://itunesapis.com/

http://developers.artistdata.com/

http://www.ticketfly.com/about/affiliates/1795/

http://code.ticketmaster.com/

http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/

http://developer.netflix.com/

http://developers.grooveshark.com/

http://developer.emusic.com/

http://developer.jambase.com/

http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/

http://soundcloud.com/developers

http://developer.8tracks.com/?token=blank

http://api.comicvine.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/music/

http://twiki.corp.yahoo.com/view/MobilePlatform/MobileVideo

Are we there yet?•Airplanes:

Runway Finder, Flig.ht, FlightCaster, FlightView[$], Flight Wise [$], Pidgets

• Locations:Flickr Places, Snapfish, To.uri.st

• Translations: Forvo

• Travel Guides:Yahoo! Travel, NileGuide, Dopplr, Lonely Planet

•Reservations:Hotwire, GroopBuy, Kayak

• Trip Plans:TripIt

http://www.runwayfinder.com/developers/

http://data.flig.ht/

http://flightcaster.com/developer

http://www.flightview.com/corporate/products/Default.aspx

http://flightwise.com/pu/info/td.aspx?st=0&ht=35

http://airports.pidgets.com/v1/

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

http://publisher.snapfish.com/developers.html

http://tourist.wikispaces.com/webapi

http://api.forvo.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/travel/

http://www.nileguide.com/pages/apiAccess.html

http://dopplr.pbworks.com/API+Resource+URLs

http://developer.lplabs.com/

http://developer.hotwire.com/

http://www.groopbuy.com/more/api

http://developer.kayak.com/

http://www.tripit.com/developer


I’m learning•Contextual and Semantic:

Zemanta, Open Calais

•Search: BOSS, Hakia, WolframAlpha

•References:Biblia, Yahoo! Spelling Suggestions, Yahoo! Answers, Thesaurus, Wikipedia

•Science: ChemCaster, DeepDyve, Biodiversity, NCBI, PLOS, cPath, AMEE

http://developer.zemanta.com/

http://www.opencalais.com/documentation/calais-web-service-api

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/developers

http://www.wolframalpha.com/developers.html

http://api.biblia.com/docs/Samples

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/

http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/

http://words.bighugelabs.com/api.php

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

http://chemcaster.com/

http://www.deepdyve.com/corp/partners/search_api

http://data.gbif.org/terms.htm?forwardUrl=http%25253A%25252F%25252Fdata.gbif.org%25252Fdatasets%25252F

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/static/egquery_help.html

http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/

http://cbio.mskcc.org/cpath/webservice.do?cmd=help

http://my.amee.com/developers/wiki/AmeeApi

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/

http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss

•Astronomy: HelioViewer

•Archeology: OpenContext

• Legal: WebLaws

•Reading:Feedbooks, Text To Speech

I’m learning

http://helioviewer.org/api/

http://opencontext.org/

https://www.weblaws.org/page/api_documentation

http://www.feedbooks.com/api

http://www.ispeech.org/api

I am, I have, I owe• Personal Finance:

Intuit

• Real Estate: Trulia,Fizber, Zillow, Walk Score, Rent Rent, Rentrange

• Shopping: StickyBits, Zappos, Etsy, ShopZilla

• Goodstuff: All for Good, Kiva, Donors Choose, Petfinder

http://member.developer.intuit.com/MyIDN/technical_resources/quickbase/framework/httpapiref/HTML_API_Programmers_Guide.htm

http://developer.trulia.com/

http://www.fizber.com/services/fizber_xml.html

http://www.zillow.com/howto/api/APIOverview.htm

http://www.walkscore.com/services/api.php

http://www.rentrent.org/RENT/API/index.html

http://www.rentrange.com/API/API-developer-guide.php

http://code.google.com/p/stickybits/

http://groups.google.com/group/zappos_api/web/zappos-public-api

http://developer.etsy.com/

http://shopzillapublisherprogram.typepad.com/blog/xml_api_feed/

http://www.allforgood.org/docs/api.html

http://build.kiva.org/docs/

http://developer.donorschoose.org/

http://www.petfinder.com/developers/api-docs

http://api.finance.yahoo.com:4080/explorer/explorer.html

What is my phone doing?

•On the phone:Intel CPU, Prowl, Ericsson

•Carriers:Sprint Telephony, Orange Voice

•Specs:WURFL, Handset Detection

http://software.intel.com/sites/whatif/webapis/api/cpu/

http://prowl.weks.net/api.php

https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/

http://developer.sprint.com/site/global/home/p_home.jsp

http://api.orange.com/en/all-api

http://wurflws.appspot.com/

http://www.handsetdetection.com/resources/api-overview

Resources•Programmable Web

•Most of these APIs are available via Y.Q.L.

•Mashable

•Hacker News

http://www.programmableweb.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql

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Yahoo! Hack University: Data APIs to use and Abuse