Comments on: Yahoo Pipes – could do better

By: Robert S. Robbins

Robert S. Robbins — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:54:02 +0000

The fact that Yahoo! Pipes makes it possible to convert XML into JSON makes it ideal for mashups that need to work around cross domain access restrictions. I shall be using Yahoo! Pipes extensively where I need a JSON data feed with a callback function but only have a XML data feed provided.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:30:20 +0000

@Carlos – I’ve still to get into the filtering – perhaps to filter out mentions on twitter in blogs (!)

@Conor – does this make you a pipes senior developer? I hadn’t seen that problem , not the losing of edits.

What I love to be able to do is take my entire set of rss feeds (as opml), filter them and sort according to some preference , but keep them as individual feeds. Seems I can do all but the last item ..

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:57:38 +0000

I’d be using it in a showcase project right now if the one thing I needed, regexes that work with html markup, actually worked.

It’s a known bug which they say they are fixing but it stops me dead in my tracks and just makes it an interesting toy for the moment.

It also kept losing my edits which was very frustrating.

I find it bizarre that the support forums for a power-RSS tool like pipes do not have RSS feeds per discussion thread! Maybe I could write a pipe to do it

By: carlos orrego

carlos orrego — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:38:14 +0000

I love the filtering capabilities of yahoo Pipes
I have not found that service in any other provider.

I do not think it is hard to extend, it basically generates new rss that you can throw to another filter, agreggator, widget, etc…