Views 3 + YQL + Views Attach (presentation at DrupalCamp Oslo)

This is a recording of a presentation at DrupalCamp Oslo 2010 showing how to integrate YQL data with your Drupal using Views 3 and YQL Views Query Backend.

This screencast can be downloaded at Archive.org and Vimeo.

Attached are features used in this presentation, as well as some more elaborate comments and step-by-step description for recreate all the functions displayed in the screencast.

This presentation shows four practical examples of how you can use YQL data on your Drupal site

To display feeds of tweets mentioning a selected user
To display top five Google-pages linking to the current page (or a specified URL)
To search Flickr using node tags or a custom string, displaying returned images in a slideshow
To create semi-unique Twitter tags for each node, using Twitter as comment engine

This screencast differs somewhat from previous screencasts on the YQL topic

It is recorded live at DrupalCamp Oslo!
It presents some of the news in Views 3 (compared to Views 2)
It utilizes tokens to create view arguments much more than previous demonstrations
It uses Views Attach rather than Panels and Page Manager to manage Views arguments
It contains a sneak promotion of my brand new module Array Tokens

As mentioned in the screencast, I originally planned to use Panels and Page Manager to handle the arguments. This is because I find Page Manager a really great tool for handling contextual information. The problem is that you can't create contextual information consisting of arbitrary strings – such as tokens prepended or appended with custom text (read @[content-profile-profile-profile_twitter]).

If you are interested in discussing this, please visit http://drupal.org/node/915824.