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What are Yahoo!™ Pipes?

Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Yahoo! Pipes is a Web application from Yahoo! that provides a GUI-based interface for building applications that aggregate Web feeds and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. The site works by letting users "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (e.g. filtering). A typical example is New York Times thru Flickr, a pipe which takes the New York Times RSS feed and adds a photo from Flickr based on the keywords of each item. The site is currently in beta. Source: Wikipedia.


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Yahoo!™ Pipes Official
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How to create a Yahoo!™ Pipe

 

Pipes badges in the wild and cool blog posts
It’s been a few months since we launched Pipes badges. We’ve seen them all over the web and just wanted to point out a few. Sites that use Pipes badges really have ranged the gamut from a map/photo mashup at Calistoga Inn’s web site to powering Blondies home page. http://www.builderstudiovt.com - nice use of the Pipes [...]

New Yahoo! Pipes PHP serialized output renderer
Until now JSON output has been the only way to obtain all the data flowing through a Pipe. Starting today we’ve added a second way of getting all the data - serialized PHP Pipe output. To get this, go to your Pipe -> More options -> Get as PHP. Right click the “Get as PHP” link [...]

Introducing - Pipe Badges!
Did you ever want an easy way of putting Pipes output onto your website or blog? Introducing - Pipes badges! We currently have three types of badges - map, image and list. Map badges are available if there is geocoded data in the feed. Image badges are available if there are media images in the feed. List [...]

Our one year anniversary
It’s Pipes first birthday and we’ve grown so much! We’d like to thank our users and developers for making Pipes so successful. It really makes us enjoy getting up in the morning and coming to work. Since our launch (way back in 07), we have been focused on listening to what you want and prioritizing those features [...]

Pipes Camp!
We were delighted to hear about the first ever pipesCamp that was recently held in Chennai, India. The event had approximately 50 hackers and hobbyists attending. The event not only allowed experienced users to share new ideas, techniques and pipes - but also provided a community for new users to tap into the power of Yahoo! [...]

New ?Fetch Page? module and nice web path enhancement?
This week we have two updates to our site: A new module to fetch a pages source and a small fix for easy web paths when running a Pipe. This weeks release incorporates a new module named “Fetch Page”. The new module will fetch the source of a given web site as a string. This data [...]

New ?Private? field support for passwords, application IDs and more
Four nice changes to Pipes this week. First, ever wanted to share your Pipe but not your username, password or application ID? Now you can! Pipes now supports “private” fields in two new modules, the private input module and the private string module. Private fields are not visible to anyone but the Pipe creator, and are [...]

Nice web paths, RSS (and JSON) everywhere, and easier bookmarking
This week we’ve got three more updates to our site: Give you and your Pipes easy to read URLs; RSS and JSON output from most pages; and quick links to various social bookmarking sites. First, are you fed up with those impossible to remember Pipe URLs? We certainly were, so now we’ve implemented a way for [...]

iphone.pipes.yahoo.com: Access your mashup while mobile
The Pipes team spent a hectic 24 hours as part of the recent internal Y! hack day (video coming soon) creating an iPhone interface for Pipes. We thought it was so useful we wanted to get it out as soon as possible. Now everyone can access their mash-ups while mobile by going to iphone.pipes.yahoo.com. [...]

Find those pipes!
We’ve added far more advanced searching, querying, and ranking capabilities to Pipes. Now you can find the types of Pipes that interest you by refining your search on a number of criteria, including the types of output they produce, what tags they have, what data sources they are mashing up, and in any combination! Pipes [...]