YQL: html table is no longer supported

Question

I use YQL to get some html-pages for reading information out of it. Since today I get the return message \"html table is no longer supported. See https://policies.yahoo.com/

Answer 1

Even though YQL does not support the html table anymore, I've come to realize that instead of making one network call and parsing out the results it's possible to make several calls. For example, my call before would look like this:

select html from rss where url="http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KFLL.rss"

Which should give me the information as such below

Now I'd have to use these two:

select title from rss where url="http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KFLL.rss"

select description from rss where url="http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/KFLL.rss"

.. to get what I want. I don't know why they would deprecate something like this without a fallback clearly listed but you should be able to get your data this way.