ygroups.HYTMA.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd" securityLevel="any">
  <meta>
    <author>HOUYHNHNM</author>
    <description>Returns the indexed message from a public yahoo group</description>
    <documentationURL>http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VASY5CLHMAYFUT265F7HSL3YHE/blog/articles/264419?listPage=index&bb=0</documentationURL>
    <sampleQuery>select * from {table} where url="URL OF YAHOO GROUP" AND messageindex="SOME NUMBER"</sampleQuery>
 </meta>
  <bindings>
    <select itemPath="" produces="XML">
      <inputs>
        <key id='url' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
        <key id='messageindex' type='xs:string' paramType='variable' required="true" />
  </inputs>
      <execute>
      <![CDATA[ 

	var yqlstr1="select * from html where url=\"";
	var yqlstr2="/messages/";
	var yqlstr3="?xm=1&m=p&tidx=1\" and xpath=\"//tr/td[@class='message']/noscript/a|//tr/td[@class='message']/p|//tr/td[@class='smalltype']/p|//tr/td[@class='date']/a|//tr/td[@class='date']/p\"";
	var yqlquery=y.query(yqlstr1+url+yqlstr2+messageindex+yqlstr3);
	var yqlresults=yqlquery.results;
	var yqlcounter=parseInt(yqlresults.a.length());
	var xmlret=new XML();
	xmlret=<root></root>;
	var startindex=0;
	var itercount=2;
	var checkvar="";
	var checkvar2="";
	var checkvar3="";
	var checkvar4="";
	while(startindex<yqlcounter)
	{
		checkvar=yqlresults.a[startindex].@href;
		if(checkvar.match(messageindex)!=null)
		{
			checkvar2=new String("http://groups.yahoo.com");
			checkvar3=yqlresults.a[startindex].@href;
			checkvar2=checkvar2.concat(checkvar3);
			checkvar4=new String("http://groups.yahoo.com");
			checkvar3=yqlresults.p[startindex+2].span[1].a.@href;
			checkvar4=checkvar4.concat(checkvar3);
			xmlret.root+=<entry>
				<messagelink>{checkvar2}</messagelink>
				<topictitle>{yqlresults.a[startindex].span.text()}</topictitle>
				<summary>{yqlresults.p[startindex].text()}</summary>
				<numbermessages>{yqlresults.p[startindex+1].text()}</numbermessages>
				<date>{yqlresults.a[startindex+1].text()}</date>
				<username>{yqlresults.p[startindex+2].text()}</username>
				<makerprofileurl>{yqlresults.p[startindex+2].span[0].a.@href}</makerprofileurl>
				<signname>{yqlresults.p[startindex+2].span[0].a.text()}</signname>
				<respondlink>{checkvar4}</respondlink>
			</entry>
			startindex=yqlcounter;
		}else
		{
			startindex=startindex+itercount;
		}
	}
	response.object=xmlret;

 ]]>
      </execute>
    </select>
  </bindings>
</table>