My understanding is that YQL is being used as the middleware between services internally. Will probably not be shut down, but they could shut off the publicly a

My understanding is that YQL is being used as the middleware between services internally. Will probably not be shut down, but they could shut off the publicly accessible one. One thing not mentioned in this thread is that Pipes 2.0 was a rewrite from the original Pipes which was written in Perl. We ported it to the same engine that powers YQL. As for why shut down Pipes if it shares infrastructure with YQL? Probably because usage is mostly RSS crawlers that no one looks at anymore.