use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.article.search.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.bestsellers.history.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.bestsellers.search.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.bestsellers.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.movies.critics.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.movies.picks.xml';
use 'http://www.javarants.com/nyt/nyt.movies.reviews.xml';

…and serve it from somewhere on the web. If you want to try this new feature on some useful open data tables in the console, you can use a few of the ones currently in the github open data tables project like this:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?env=http://github.com/spullara/yql-tables/raw/ef685688d649a7514ebd27722366b2918d966573/alltables.env


Try it in the console!. If you look to the “table” list on the right of the console, you’ll see an extra 9 APIs and 30 tables to explore!

For example, one of the requests we had when using our weather table was how to get an ID that would work for an international location. We pointed people to the weather.com API, but that needed a URL to be formatted up in a specific way. Now you can make that a table and use it:

use 'http://www.javarants.com/weather/weather.search.xml' as ws;
select * from weather.forecast where location in (select id from ws(1) where query='bonn, germany')

Try it.

While we believe this is a great start, it’s work in progress. We’re already adding more capabilities and adjusting the open data table XML syntax as we get feedback and go forward. You can read more about how to go about creating open data tables in our documentation.