Collecting web data with a faster, free server

Dec 8th, 2009

2010 update: Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved Dec 8 This article is part of the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. This is also the first ever guest post to this blog. Please welcome the world-famous Christian Heilmann! And stay tuned for the next articles. Chris Heilmann is a self confessed data junkie […]

 

Test post from YQL

Jul 9th, 2009

It works! I can post from YQL — Update: The post above was a test posting from YQL. This is pretty cool! YQL (Yahoo Query Language) lets you do SELECTs from any service on the web. Actually doesn’t need to be a service, can be HTML (yes, scraping) or even plain text. Anything is data. […]