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Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project
Hey everyone.
For those who remember, Yahoo Pipes was a tool to mashup RSS feeds back in the good ole' days. :)
I really loved that tool, but of course, it was shut down.
Since then I know there's been a few tools and attempts at bringing it back.
I always wanted to create Yahoo Pipes clone myself.
So here is my small side project - Mashups.io
https://www.mashups.io https://www.mashups.io
It's an MVP at the moment and well, let's see where it goes.
Thanks all!
- Xeoncross 2y agoI used Yahoo! Pipes to make a consolidated social feed some years ago (https://github.com/Xeoncross/MicroStream https://github.com/Xeoncross/MicroStream). It actually placed as an honorable mention in AListAparts 10k challenge. It was really fun to have a service that could handle all the backend requests for you before sites like Zapier existed.
- arkensaw 2y agoI miss yahoo pipes! I used to use it to aggregate movie reviews for some project I was working on. Brings me back.
- hiccuphippo 2y agoI remember using it to read webcomics directly in my rss reader. It got me to really learn regular expressions.
- bewal416 2y agoCool project! Yahoo Pipes was before my time, but I remember a Tom Scott video that mentioned it. Imagine having a service like that for free today… This video has … views by Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0?si=J3sVKEJhkABUSjN_ https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0?si=J3sVKEJhkABUSjN_
- Nzen 2y agoAlong the same lines, I recommend Retool's retrospective article [0] about pipes, for some of the perspective on how it looked from inside yahoo. I'll grant that, towards the end, it is an ad for their service. [0] https://retool.com/pipes https://retool.com/pipes
- instagary 2y agoThanks for sharing this, so cool!
- xnx 2y agoAlso check out https://nodered.org/ https://nodered.org/ and https://github.com/huginn/huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and open-source software you can run yourself.
- smarx007 2y agoIs there a consolidated comparison website for these? There is also n8n that is on the rise now.
- CharlesW 2y agoNot to mention Zapier and Make, which appear to dominate the same "proprietary solutions" space where this tool resides.
- nileshtrivedi 2y agoAlso ActivePieces from YC
- mutant 2y agoWindmill.dev too! Pipedream!
- hcaz 2y agoSomething like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?
- smarx007 2y agoNo, that's just a well-curated list. I am thinking along the lines of https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/ where you have all the characteristics/features mapped and can filter down using a faceted search (e.g. implemented using datasette) by what you need. For example, I know that if I need iOS Reminders integration, IFTTT has support for that but not n8n/make/zapier. And I think Make does not support Github integration with webhooks, only API calls. If you have a set of things in mind you'd like to integrate, picking the tool that supports a full combo OOB is a pain in the spreadsheet.
- strawhatdev 2y agoFor some reason, on mobile, the demo and pricing links in the navbar get me a 404. Works fine on desktop.
- pyromaker 2y agoApologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.
- mapt 2y agoI played with pipes for a minute to manage an RSS ecosystem, but didn't build anything that I kept around. The site seems to be down. Let's say we all build wonderful apps on this, and then you run out of money or legal liability for hosting. Is there a way to construct this so that we can export our Pipes to some standard format that the next person to pick up the torch could activate, and migrate to that?
- raphar 2y agoBrings me back too. But what stayed stuck on my memory, was something i read here on HN: at some point, one yahoo dev added his affiliate code to the links !!
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- ChrisNorstrom 2y agoIs anyone able to scrape Bloomberg news? For years now they have no RSS and have made it very difficult to create one.
- trekz 2y agoOpen RSS does https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com Has feeds for deep-linked sections too https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com/technology https://openrss.org/www.bloomberg.com/technology
- Onavo 2y agoYou will need to go through archive.is if you want to bypass the paywall and get the full article, not just the summary.
- bambax 2y agoTyping this in the console: $$("div[data-component='headline']") would select all titles in the home page. It shouldn't be super hard to build an RSS file using beautifulsoup for example. Can you be more specific about what you would need?
- webspinner 2y agoOh, this is really cool, and exactly what I'm looking for, but uh, I really wish I could test it! Thing is, I probably can't. I use a screen reader, so I doubt the interface would work for me, but maybe I'll try it, just for fun.
- xrd 2y agoI had a lot of fun wiring and rewriting an RSS feed using this. Super simple and worked well. RIP Yahoo Pipes, but this looks like a worthy successor. And, I can't help but think there is gold to be found mining the graveyards of tech that people loved but was never a billion dollar revenue source...
- thellmnator 2y agoWow interesting, I think I'm too young to remember yahoo pipes
- instagary 2y agoThe demo was intuitive, congrats on the launch! Can I ask what you used to build the canvas UI?
- newusertoday 2y agomost likely xyflow
- paulimsouza 2y agocan you add a JSON export option?
- pyromaker 2y agoGood idea!
- pentagrama 2y agoGreat product, is awesome play with RSS feeds. Will check it out. Want to add for anyone wanting to quickly apply a filter to one RSS feed I recommend https://www.siftrss.com/ https://www.siftrss.com/, it doesn't require create an account and it works perfectly.
- Uptrenda 2y agoI've heard many people here over the years mention it fondly. You must have left quite the impression on them.
- sreejithr 2y agoNot gonna lie. I've been looking for something like this. It tried it, works really well. I'm gonna build a daily news pipeline for myself.
- donatj 2y agoMy biggest use for Yahoo Pipes was filtering podcast feeds - namely, filtering out episodes I don't care about. For instance, a podcast I listen to has episodes where they just talk shop and others where they play Dungeons & Dragons. I really cannot be bothered to care about the latter type. I actually wrote a little, easily modifiable Digital Ocean function I've been customizing and deploying per feed I want to filter. It feels like a hack, and it is, but it's "good enough". It's been working reasonably well and runs rarely enough that it falls into Digital Ocean’s free tier.
- rcarmo 2y agoThis is nice. Over the years I moved to Noda-RED for this kind of thing, but Pipes was just so much easier to use for quick queries and filtering.
- onli 2y agoHit me up if you want to compare notes about Pipes successor implementations ;) And best of luck.
- samsquire 2y agoThanks for putting the work into this. These kinds of software pipelines can be strangely satisfying to implement. The development style of thinking of stream processing and online algorithms It's also inspired by mapping and filtering and functional programming with flatmap. It reminds me of factorio
- mtrovo 2y agoCongrats on the launch! It's awesome to see someone resurrect the best parts of Yahoo Pipes, I really miss the simplicity of those days. Have you thought about supporting other sources, such as websites with tables or social media feeds? I've been thinking a lot about how LLM agents need some kind of glue to connect them to everyday websites at a level higher than raw HTML. What you’re building here really reminds me of that idea.