Nestoria UK Blog

Fellow Nestorbrants,

Recently we’ve been spending a bit of time working on the Nestoria API. This got us exploring the wonderful world of APIs in general (BTW a great way to stay on top of things is via the delightful blog programmableweb). One project we’ve had our eye on for some time, and wanted to highlight here, is Yahoo’s YQL effort. YQL is effectively an “API of APIs”. It allows anyone to pull in any number of datasources via a well-known SQL-like syntax. All sorts of datasets are available, and it’s not hard to add more. Best of all the Nestoria API is also accessible via YQL, for which we have Sam Pullara and Francisco Jesús Jordano Jiménez to thank. Nice work guys! Here’s an example query. But to see the true power you should spend some time playing with Yahoo’s online console (you need to be logged in, so no link).

If you’d like to learn more (which I highly recommend) Yahoo! developer advocate Chris Heilmann gave a great presentation showing the potential of YQL. It’s well worth checking out.

Overall YQL is a great innovation as it moves us yet another step closer to the internet of “small things, loosely joined”. It’s great to see Yahoo! driving these efforts.

On a related note, for our German-speaking friends, here’s our interview with Christian a few months back.