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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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How to create a Yahoo!™ Pipe

 

Update on Yahoo! Pipes
We've been getting some questions about what's going on with Pipes these day from various blogs and our message boards, so here's a small update about its progress and what we're working on. Since its v1 launch two years ago, Pipes has had over 24 feature releases. The Pipes system of today is quite different from [...]

New Create RSS and RSS Item Builder Modules
When using source modules other than Fetch Feed, the data structure is often not reflective of a RSS structure. When viewing the Pipe as RSS or on the Pipe info page, the results seem to be empty and many users ask on the message boards "why can't I see my data?" So we created 2 [...]

Using YQL Execute to power the Pipes Webservice Module
YQL has become a great way to extend Pipes. You can harvest the power of YQL by using YQL statements in the YQL module. Another way of using even more of YQL's power is to use the Pipes Webservice module. This enables you to use YQL's Execute functionality to create javascript functions that will work [...]

Yahoo! Pipes, our 2nd Birthday.
It's been an awesome 2 years! Pipes continues to be one of the most popular mashup and feed processing tools around the web. We would like to thank everyone for using our services, reporting bugs and giving great suggestions! Here is a short list of what happened since our last birthday. fixed international encoding bug released YQL module released badges released [...]

Feedburner and Pipes
Unfortunately as some of you have experienced, Pipes RSS feeds have been returning a "999" error when running them through Feedburner. As we posted on our message boards last week, we've tracked the issue down to Feedburner's recent migration onto Google's platforms (more details can be found on Feedburners status blog http://feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com/). During this migration, the [...]

New Pipes YQL module and changes to ?Use this Pipe? banner
We just added a new source module: YQL. YQL complements Pipes by allowing you to fetch, aggregate and mash up data from many sources using a SQL-like SELECT syntax. To find out more about YQL click here. To use YQL, simply enter a YQL [...]

Pipes webservice module and AppJet
Did you ever want to do something more with Pipes data? By using a Pipes webservice module you can! There are several ways you can achieve this. You can host your own - or even host it on Google App Engine. Sam Pullara has a great post on how to extend Pipes with GAE here. One host [...]

Pipes charset encoding and pubDate
Pipes has had a problem handling certain character sets in various feeds and XML documents. The good news is that we believe we've finally isolated the issue and the release today should solve the mangling problem for a majority of feeds in our system. If you are using the http://william.cswiz.org/tool/xmliconv/ hack, you can still continue [...]

How to find your Pipe ID after customizing your Pipes URL.
For you web2.0 savvy people that customized your Pipes URL to http://pipes.yahoo.com/coolname/coolpipe, you might be wondering how to get your Pipe ID. This is especially useful to Flash developers who use our yahooapis.com crossdomain policy file as the web2.0 URLs aren't supported in that domain. To get the ID of your Pipe go to "More Options" on [...]

Twitter and Pipes
As some of you know, fetching Twitter feeds via Pipes often produces a 406 error in our editor, and the Pipe does not run successfully. We have been in contact with Twitter trying to resolve this problem and supplied them several test cases. Based on various tests we've performed it appears that Twitter's servers are blocking [...]