Hi guys,
I'm working on a ruby app at the mo, and trying to get it to talk to YQL, in particular, geoplanet.
I want it to send a long complex name for a place, and get back the rough area (or as yahoo refers to it, 'locality1').
I've tested out the query in the yql console, and manually with curl, but when I try sending this request off to Yahoo from inside the app, I get back a 400 error.
Here's the code:
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def yql_name_hpricot(name)
# this method takes a place name, and returns the English name of the region it resides in.
# So 'Marnee La Valle Chessy' becomes 'Chessy', and 'London Kings Cross International' becomes 'London'
# 'name' is value pulled out of a database here
url_safe_name = name.gsub(" ", "%20")
yql = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?"
# this snippet takes the query back
response = Hpricot.XML(open("#{yql}q=select%20locality1%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22#{url_safe_name}%22"))
# Hpricot has an innerHTML method that plucks a value out of an xml feed, getting rid of any whitespace
response_name = response.innerHTML.strip
end
Is there anything obvious I'm missing here?
How could I check if I'm tripping the rate limiter here, or get more detailed info back to see what I'm doing wrong?
