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    <p>You could write a little <a href="http://datatables.org/" rel="noreferrer">Open Data Table</a> to send out a normal YQL <code>html</code> table query and <em>stringify</em> the result. Something like the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt; &lt;table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd"&gt; &lt;meta&gt; &lt;sampleQuery&gt;select * from {table} where url="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo" and xpath='//div[@id="yfi_headlines"]/div[2]/ul/li/a'&lt;/sampleQuery&gt; &lt;description&gt;Retrieve HTML document fragments&lt;/description&gt; &lt;author&gt;Peter Cowburn&lt;/author&gt; &lt;/meta&gt; &lt;bindings&gt; &lt;select itemPath="result.html" produces="JSON"&gt; &lt;inputs&gt; &lt;key id="url" type="xs:string" paramType="variable" required="true"/&gt; &lt;key id="xpath" type="xs:string" paramType="variable" required="true"/&gt; &lt;/inputs&gt; &lt;execute&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ var results = y.query("select * from html where url=@url and xpath=@xpath", {url:url, xpath:xpath}).results.*; var html_strings = []; for each (var item in results) html_strings.push(item.toXMLString()); response.object = {html: html_strings}; ]]&gt;&lt;/execute&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;/bindings&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <hr> <p>You could then query against that custom table with a YQL query like:</p> <pre><code>use "http://url.to/your/datatable.xml" as html.tostring; select * from html.tostring where url="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=yhoo" and xpath='//div[@id="yfi_headlines"]/div[2]/ul/li' </code></pre> <hr> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Just realised this is a pretty old question that was bumped; at least an answer is here, eventually, for anyone stumbling on the question. :)</p>
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    1. COBeautiful! Thank you. The only issue I have now is how to get a Yahoo Pipes variable into the YQL expression. For example, select * from html.tostring where url=item.link and xpath='//div[@id="foo"]' gives back the error "Invalid identfier item.link. me is the only supported identifier in this context." Any ideas how I do that? (Sorry for the butchered code snippet, looks like comments don't allow much in the way of formatting)
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    2. COFigured out the answer to this: create a separate pipe which takes a URL input, inserts that into a string builder which builds the YQL query, and attach that as the query to the YQL widget. Then in your main pipe, use this new pipe and pass in the URL as the input to it. I think I'll probably open a new question for this specifically so people don't have to hunt it down in the comments of this one.
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    3. COOpened: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2889406/how-do-i-pass-a-yahoo-pipes-item-into-a-yql-query
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