Can YQL analyze websites requiring cookie based authentication?

Question

First, my use case:

I am trying to use the YQL built-in XPATH features to clear content from Yahoo! Championship of Romania. It uses some kind of cookie based authentication scheme. Basically, the sequence:

1) Make an HTTP GET on Yahoo! Authorization page 2) Disassemble the hidden inputs from the response and perform HTTP PUT using your Yahoo! Entering the URL form 3) Use the cookies returned from step 2 to GET any of Fantasy Sports! sites that you have access to

My question is, does YQL support this for data cleansing? The only authentication-based examples I've seen use OAuth, but I haven't seen examples of using YQL to analyze sites using cookie-based authentication schemes.

Answer 1

You will need to use an open table with a execute block .

Basically, you write JavaScript that will run on YQL servers to execute all the necessary logic.