Question

I’m using yql to return a list of links from specific webpages. So far so good, it returns all the links that I pretend, however I don’t know how to translate that info into my webpage.

Here’s what I’m trying to do:

• YQL returns a list of links in the
  results
• I want those links to appear in my
  webpage, inside a table, inside divs,
  etc… like if i wrote them there.

I have been trying to find a way to do this but I don’t know much of js and json so I’m here trying to achieve some answer from those of you that might know a way.

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on which approach you want to take.

First, and simplest, is server-side generation. This is what would result, for example, if a user hits a Submit button on a search form to send you his query, your script receives the query and generates the page, then sends that page to the user. In this case, your question is largely trivial. In pseudocode:

ASSIGN the list of results to list L
FOR EACH ITEM r IN L
    PRINT a string containing an HTML template, substituting the value 
          r where appropriate

It’s trivial enough that I suspect you want to do this via DOM manipulation. This is what requires JavaScript: you get the query, send the request without refreshing the page, and want to add the results to the DOM. If you’re receiving the list of results, you’re already most of the way there. Using jQuery, you would do the same thing as in the pseudocode above, except that where it has the PRINT statement you would have:

$(".SearchResults").append("<li>" + r + "</li>");

I highly recommend reading through the jQuery tutorial. It’s not as hard as you think.