yahoo! hack university: data apis to use and abuse
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This presentation lists dozens of data APIs that are displayed by category. Most of these are also found on Programmable web and many have YQL tables.TRANSCRIPT
Red Hot DataWhere did you get that API?
Hack U - Washington 2011Ted DRAKE
Hack - Data = null
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
What can I see?
•News and Events:Everyblock,, Daylife, Upcoming
•Local Shops:Yahoo! Local, Yelp, GeoReach
•Traffic:Yahoo! Traffic, SF Muni
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
It bleeds - It leads Sports
•Sports Data: Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
•Social Athletes:Active, Fan Feedr, OpenFooty, Motorsport Reg, Golf, Run Saturday
It bleeds - It leads Weather
•Weather Data: Yahoo! Weather , Weather Underground, NWS
• Environment: First Look, OpenEco, Amee, GDAC [YQL], USGS
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
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
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
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
•Astronomy: HelioViewer
•Archeology: OpenContext
• Legal: WebLaws
•Reading:Feedbooks, Text To Speech
I’m learning
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
What is my phone doing?
•On the phone:Intel CPU, Prowl, Ericsson
•Carriers:Sprint Telephony, Orange Voice
•Specs:WURFL, Handset Detection
Resources•Programmable Web
•Most of these APIs are available via Y.Q.L.
•Mashable
•Hacker News