Table Syntax

The YQL Social Tables have the following syntax:

social.{yahoo_social_api}.[{data_subset}]

The elements in this syntax are as follows:

  • {yahoo_social_api} - One of the Yahoo! Social APIs: contacts, connections, profile, relationships, updates
  • {data_subset} - (Optional) A subsection of the data from {yahoo_social_api} or another table that can be joined with {yahoo_social_api}.

Syntax Examples

This table provides access to the Contacts API:

social.contacts

This table provides access to the Profile API and returns the images (data subset) of the user's profile.

social.profile.image

This table joins data from the Contacts and Updates APIs to return the updates of the user's contacts.

social.contacts.updates

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