buzz follower using yql

Question

HI

how can i grab buzz follower using YQL . actually i want to count the total no of buzz follower . please help

Answer 1

You would need to obtain an OAuth access token for Google Buzz first because the access points for obtaining followers require authentication. Then, instead of the usual methods of passing in an OAuth signature to the Buzz API, you would do it through the URI with query parameters. This will allow you to craft the URI and pass it through to YQL, which will in turn relay it to the Buzz API. You will, of course, need to generate your YQL query dynamically. Then you can make the API call to get the list of Buzz followers.

Please note, OAuth is hard, and this is probably very nearly the hardest possible usage of OAuth I can think of. Not for the feint of heart. In this case, YQL is going to make things much more complicated, not less complicated.