While we touched on this API in our API Webinar, I wanted to review a bit more and demonstrate the Yahoo Console which can greatly aide you in developing your API calls. Below is the code I demonstrate in the video. The Yahoo API is pretty straight-forward and, for many calls, you don’t need a secure Token or ID!
queryString:=QueryString_Builder({"q":"select * from local.search where zip='75019' and query='hot dogs'","format":"json"})
;~ MsgBox % queryString
EndPoint:="https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql"
;***********API call*******************
HTTP := ComObjCreate("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
HTTP.Open("GET", EndPoint . queryString) ;GET or POST most common; Uppercase matters!
HTTP.Send()
Response_Data:=HTTP.ResponseText
SciTE_Output(Response_Data) ;Text,Clear=1,LineBreak=1,Exit=0
;~ SciTE_Output(sXML_Pretty(Response_data," ")) ;Text,Clear=1,LineBreak=1,Exit=0
return
QueryString_Builder(kvp){
for key, value in kvp
queryString.=((A_Index="1")?(url "?"):("&")) key "=" value
return queryString
}
Video demonstrating Example API call to Yahoo
