You know, honestly, I wasn't grokking much about how cool YQL could be until I saw this example. This helps a lot. Thanks.

I don't get it. Don't queries like that suffer from the same problems as normal screen scraping?

Yeah, they're obviously brittle, but it's baby steps, y'know?

I think it's pretty crazy that you can now scrape well-marked pages with a SQL-like syntax.

YQL isn't that great server-side until they add an `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` header. I'm pretty disappointed that they completely disallow Javascript access.

It offers JSONP instead so you can access any YQL content via Javascript in a browser via script nodes.

You still have to give Yahoo! complete control with that method. With XHR, Yahoo! has no control over your webpage.

It only it works in a few browsers but doesn't seem like it would hurt anything to add it. Thanks for the suggestion!

I love how HN is the only site where "[x] would be cool" turns into a feature request implemented by the vendor.

Nah, we do the same thing for things suggested on Twitter :)