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Can someone tell me one really good way Yahoo Pipes is being used? I can't seem to find something that is tangible and usable. Most of the site deals with deve
by talbina 16y ago
Can someone tell me one really good way Yahoo Pipes is being used?
I can't seem to find something that is tangible and usable. Most of the site deals with developers, and some of them sometimes are more concerned with the language/tools of the application rather than making something that other people can understand or relate to.
- alanh 16y agoI used Yahoo Pipes in two clever, useful ways. One: I would tweet announcements for @asuSoDA, the Software Developers Association I ran at Arizona State U. But these are easy to miss, especially if one doesn’t use Twitter, so I used Pipes to clean up the RSS feed Twitter published, stripping the redundant nature of each tweet starting with "asusoda:", for instance. Two: A professor published homework and grades online, by adding a paragraph starting with date. I used another tool that scrapes HTML into RSS, then piped this into Y! Pipes, where I used regexes to not only give the RSS entries nice titles, but also linked to homework details pages, which had guessable names but the professor did not link to from the announcement pages. So if his note including the phrase /[Hh]omework ([0-9]+)/, I would wrap this in <a> tags as appropriate.
- pjscott 16y agoWow, those are both really clever and cool. I'm going to check out Yahoo Pipes now.
- ericflo 16y agoI found this visualization to be really interesting, powered by Yahoo Pipes: http://www.xefer.com/twitter/ericflo http://www.xefer.com/twitter/ericflo
- bmelton 16y agoThat is amazing. Canvas? If so, bravo. It's a little sluggish with Chromium on Meerkat, but I'm perfectly willing to overlook that. Brilliant visualization.
- shib71 16y agoHe's using Google Charts (http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ http://code.google.com/apis/chart/). The center piece is actually several charts with transparent backgrounds layered over each other, and the right and bottom are two more separate charts. Very cool.
- gte910h 16y agoPipes is a great way to transform RSS feeds into useful data. 400 data feeds from a site? Turns into 1, etc.
- shib71 16y agoI read a few online comics that have RSS feeds, but don't include the comic in the feed. I use Yahoo pipes to insert the image into the feed body.
- gcb 16y agocare to share that? my comic fetcher is a little outdated
- sliverstorm 16y agoI use it to trawl Craigslist when I'm looking for a specific kind of vehicle. To give you 2 examples why this is useful - First, you can search a couple nearby CL areas at the same time. Second, people enter "Mazda RX7" many different ways- such as "Mazda RX-7" or "RX7"- and you can also search for both "1988 Mazda RX7" and "88 Mazda RX7" and combine the results. Thus, once you identify your criteria and thoughtfully consider the queries you should run, you won't have to dig through the website anymore, and only ever see the results you care about with excellent accuracy- I did some manual double-checking at first to make sure I wasn't missing ham, and I'd say I was getting 95% of the ham. It's also easy to filter out the spam. Plus, new results are delivered within 60 minutes of being posted, so if it's a really hot deal I won't be out of the loop.
- bluesmoon 16y agohttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_ultimate_yahoo_pipes_list.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_ultimate_yahoo_pipe...