YQL: html table is no longer supported

I use YQL to get some html-pages for reading information out of it. Since today I get the return message "html table is no longer supported. See https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/product-atos/yql/index.htm for YQL Terms of Use"

Example in the console: https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=select+*+from+html+where+url%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%22

Did Yahoo stop this service? Does anybody know a kind of announcement from Yahoo? I am wondering whether this is simply a bug or whether they really stopped this service...

All documentation is still there (html scraping): https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/yql-select-xpath.html , https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

A while ago I posted in an YQL forum from Yahoo, now this one does not exist anymore (or at least I do not find it). How can you contact Yahoo to find out whether this service really stopped?

Best regards, hebr3

Thank you very much for your code.

It helped me to create my own script to read those pages which I need. I never programmed PHP before, but with your code and the wisdom of the internet I could change your script to my needs.

PHP

<?
    header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); //all
    $url = $_GET['url'];
    if (substr($url,0,25) != "https://www.xxxx.yy") {
       echo "Only https://www.xxxx.yy allowed!";
       return;
    }
    $xpathQuery = $_GET['xpath'];

    //need more hard check for security, I made only basic
   function check($target_url){
       $check = curl_init();
       //curl_setopt( $check, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("REMOTE_ADDR: $ip", "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: $ip"));
        //curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookiemon.txt');
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookiemon.txt');
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40000);
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_URL, $target_url);
        curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,   $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
    curl_setopt($check, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
        $tmp = curl_exec ($check);
        curl_close ($check);
        return $tmp;
    } 

    // get html
    $html = check($url);
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    @$dom->loadHTML($html);

    // apply xpath filter
    $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
    $elements = $xpath->query($xpathQuery);
    $temp_dom = new DOMDocument();
    foreach($elements as $n)   $temp_dom->appendChild($temp_dom->importNode($n,true));
    $renderedHtml = $temp_dom->saveHTML();

    // return html in json response
    // json structure: 
    // {html: "xxxx"}
    $post_data = array(
      'html' => $renderedHtml
    );  
    echo json_encode($post_data); 

?>

Javascript

$.ajax({
    url: "url of service",
    dataType: "json", 
    data: { url: url,
            xpath: "//*"
          },
    type: 'GET',
    success: function() {
             },
    error: function(data) {
           }
});