title: YQL query service replacement now that Yahoo shut it down
body: <p>So now that Yahoo shut down <code>query.yahooapis.com</code> as the following message indicates, does anyone know of a free replacement?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"Important EOL Notice: As of Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, the YQL service
    at query.yahooapis.com will be retired. This will impact users of
    datatables.org as well as developers who creates features using this
    YQL service. To continue using our free Yahoo Weather APIs, use
    <a href="https://weather-ydn-yql.media.yahoo.com/forecastrss" rel="noreferrer">https://weather-ydn-yql.media.yahoo.com/forecastrss</a> as your new API
    endpoint. Contact yahoo-weather-ydn-api@oath.com for credentials to
    onboard to this free Yahoo Weather API service. Other YQL based
    services that use query.yahooapis.com will no longer operate."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Need to replace <code>"//query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q="</code> for my rss scraper to work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>function yql(a, b) {
          return (
            "**//query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=**" +
            encodeURIComponent(
              "select * from " +
                b +
                ' where url="' +
                a +
                '" limit ' +
                params.feedcount
            ) +
            "&amp;format=json"
          );
        }
  </code></pre>