Chapter 1. General Information About the Yahoo! Social APIs

What are the Yahoo! Social APIs?

The Yahoo! Social APIs consist of YQL tables enable you to create socially-enabled applications. The Yahoo! Social APIs offer the following advantages:

  • Your applications can tap into the social graph of millions of Yahoo! users.
  • When deployed on the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), applications have access to massive distribution through the Yahoo! network.
  • Calls made to the APIs are secure, conforming to the authorization requirements of Yahoo! OAuth.

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