During the app gold rush I would use Yahoo pipes to build 'backends' for apps that were nothing more than screen scrapers. For example, you want to make an And

During the app gold rush I would use Yahoo pipes to build 'backends' for apps that were nothing more than screen scrapers. For example, you want to make an Android app that presents a home screen widget to show the current lottery jackpot or winning numbers. You could build a Yahoo Pipes thing to scrape and parse that, and format it into an RSS feed. The best part is anti-scraping measures allowed it because they thought it was a Yahoo crawler.