Introduction to Yahoo! Pipes
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This document provides an overview of how to use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter content from various sources on the web. It explains how to set up a Yahoo account and sign up for Pipes. The basics of Pipes involve using inputs, operators, and outputs to bring searches and feeds together in one place. Examples are provided for creating simple RSS aggregators as well as more advanced pipes for meta-searching, user input, scraping web pages, and filtering/renaming feeds.
Introduction to Yahoo! Pipes
- 1. Get yourself ready • Go to pipes.yahoo.com • Register for a Yahoo! account if you need one • Sign up to Yahoo! Pipes • Click on ‘Create a pipe’ Friday, 14 October 2011
- 2. Pipe Eyes: go beyond alerts and RSS Paul Bradshaw OnlineJournalismBlog.com, Twitter.com/paulbradshaw Friday, 14 October 2011
- 3. In a nutshell... • How to bring all your searches into one place • How to create an email and RSS alert • Knowing what else Pipes can do Friday, 14 October 2011
- 4. The basics Inputs, operators, and outputs Friday, 14 October 2011
- 5. What can you do with Pipes? • Aggregate and mash up • Filter • Translate • Map • Sort, count and search • Reformat, publish and distribute Friday, 14 October 2011
- 6. Modules, canvas, debugger Friday, 14 October 2011
- 7. Sources and operators Friday, 14 October 2011
- 8. A simple aggregator Friday, 14 October 2011
- 9. RSS feeds are everywhere Friday, 14 October 2011
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- 11. Searches by RSS • Google News Search, Yahoo News • Technorati, icerocket, ljseek • Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net • Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes) • video.google.com, YouTube, Vimeo • Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit • Boardreader • Google Alerts (try adding site:facebook.com or site:gov.ru etc.) Friday, 14 October 2011
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- 14. Trouble-shooting RSS feed doesn’t work? Try putting it through Feedburner.com to create a new one Results clustering? Use the Sort module to put them in date order Friday, 14 October 2011
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- 19. String, user input and URL modules Friday, 14 October 2011
- 20. Building a custom meta-search Friday, 14 October 2011
- 21. Building a custom meta-search Friday, 14 October 2011
- 22. String and user input modules See http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/01/26/creating-query-forms-in-google-spreadsheets-sort-of/ Friday, 14 October 2011
- 23. Finding and cloning pipes Standing on the shoulders of giants Friday, 14 October 2011
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- 25. Scraping Friday, 14 October 2011
- 26. Filtering an XML feed Friday, 14 October 2011
- 27. Renaming a CSV feed Friday, 14 October 2011
- 28. Links Delicious.com/paulb/kiev11 Delicious.com/paulb/yahoopipes OnlineJournalismBlog.com/tag/ yahoo-pipes Friday, 14 October 2011