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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 V2 engine
Some background: The current Pipes engine is nearly 3 years old and was created quite quickly to see if the Pipes idea would be successful. It was. Wildly so. Its been a good stretch for that software and the system design, but the time has come to put something else in its place. During the [...]

YQL execute to power the Pipes webservice module update.
If anyone has been using YQL execute to power the Pipes webservice module, in your execute statement JSON.stringify is no longer needed. Our previous post about using YQL to power the Pipes webservice module has been updated: http://blog.pipes.yahoo.net/2009/06/01/using-yql-execute-to-power-the-pipes-webservice-module/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.pipes.yahoo.net%2F2010%2F04%2F13%2Fyql-execute-to-power-the-pipes-webservice-module-update%2F'; addthis_title = 'YQL+execute+to+power+the+Pipes+webservice+module+update.'; addthis_pub = [...]

Craigslist and Yahoo! Pipes - resolved.
We've been working with Craigslist over the last week to see how both products can better work with each other. After providing more information about how to track and ban Pipes that violate their TOS (or are considered generally abusive), they have opened Craigslist RSS feeds back to us. addthis_url = [...]

Connection refused and other Pipes issues
Pipes usage has grown exceptionally since its launch nearly three years ago. Unfortunately, the original architectural design and implementation of the engine has been showing it's age for a while now. To address these we've been actively working on moving from the current engine to a new data flow engine based on the one YQL uses [...]

Craigslist and Yahoo! Pipes
As many of you are aware, Craigslist recently started blocking Yahoo Pipes. We're currently working with them to establish why they did this and what can be done. In the meantime here are several alternative ways to use Pipes and Craigslist together: 1. As of this writing, you still can use the YQL module to fetch [...]

JOB: Principal Software Engineer - Pipes Team
The Pipes and YQL team is looking to expand! Passionate about Pipes? Want to be part of a great team and be involved in the evolution of Pipes and YQL? Got Java skills? For more information see http://careers.yahoo.com/jdescription.php?frm=jsres&oid=25394 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.pipes.yahoo.net%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fjob-principal-software-engineer-pipes-team%2F'; addthis_title = 'JOB%3A+Principal+Software+Engineer+-+Pipes+Team'; addthis_pub = [...]

Term Extractor Module stays!
Please see this posting: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/08/term_extraction_stays.html The Term Extractor Module will be moved out of the deprecated folder back into the String folder shortly. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.pipes.yahoo.net%2F2009%2F08%2F19%2Fterm-extractor-module-stays%2F'; addthis_title = 'Term+Extractor+Module+stays%21'; addthis_pub = 'pipesteam';

Term Extractor module to be discontinued at the end of August.
Attention Pipe Developers and Users. The Term Extractor module listed in the String folder in the Pipes editor will be discontinued and cease to work after August 31st. It will be moved to the Deprecated folder shortly. This is the only module that will be affected at this time. The closing of the Term Extractor module is [...]

Microsoft PopFly and Google Mashup Editor RIP
As many of you might have seen PopFly (and previously Google Mashup Editor) are in the process (or have already) shut down. Its a great shame since as we know *a lot* of the applications created on these visual mashup editors used Pipes as their source of data. Indeed, everything starts with data... The good news [...]

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 [...]