Yahoo Pipes Podcast by Fast Wonder: Recent Episodes
Dawn Foster
I’ve been beta testing Iterasi’s PositivePress for a while and was excited to finally see it released to the public! It’s a great way to track and archive blog posts and articles from across the web while creating reports with links to certain articles that can be delivered to clients or friends. CNET did a … Continue reading Using Yahoo Pipes to Filter Results for Iterasi PositivePress →
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a 2 minute Yahoo Pipes video, but I had an opportunity to do a guest post on the Yahoo Developer Network blog (yay!), and I thought that a 2 minute screencast would be the best way to demonstrate my pipe. This 2 minute demo takes a series of … Continue reading Keyword CSV Files and Searching: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo →
This video shows how to use data from Google Docs as an input into Yahoo Pipes. In a previous video, I showed how to use a list of items in a CSV file. If you haven’t already watched the CSV input demo, you should start with it, since this pipe builds on the previous one. … Continue reading Accepting Google Docs Input: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo →
Yahoo Pipes can make it easier to work with location data (latitude / longitude) across multiple RSS feeds, even when the original feeds have different ways of specifying the location data. In this demo, I’ll show you how to use the Location Extracter module to normalize the data and then filter on lat / long … Continue reading Using Location Data: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo →
After learning that Yahoo Pipes introduced a new module called YQL (Yahoo Query Language) last week, I knew that I had to find a way to work it into one of my 2 minute videos. YQL uses an SQL-like syntax for more powerful and flexible inputs into Yahoo Pipes; however, working it into a 2 … Continue reading YQL (Yahoo Query Language): 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo →
This 2 minute Yahoo Pipes demos shows how to filter by date using the filter module combined with the date builder module to find all of the posts in the past 2 days from our feeds. If you haven’t already watched the 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Introductory Demo, I strongly suggest that you watch it. … Continue reading Filter By Date: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo →
We’ve talked about many different uses for Yahoo Pipes in previous 2 minute Yahoo Pipes demos, but you can also use most existing Yahoo Pipes within other pipes. In this demo, we’ll use a couple of pipes I’ve previously created as the input into a new Yahoo Pipe, and we’ll introduce the union operator as … Continue reading Pipes within Pipes: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo →
Yahoo Pipes can also be used with other services, like PostRank, for example. PostRank, originally called AideRSS, is a service that rates the posts on any blog by popularity using comments, links, bookmarks, tweets, and other measurements to give each post a rank from 1 – 10. Luckily for us, PostRank conveniently stores the rank … Continue reading Using PostRank: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo →
While many people use Yahoo Pipes to filter RSS feeds, Pipes can also be used to modify RSS feeds to work better for your purposes. In this example, we will add the author name to the beginning of the title to make it easier to see the author without opening the item in your rss … Continue reading Modifying RSS Feeds: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo →
This video shows how to get input from a list of items in a CSV file, and it introduces the loop module. A CSV file is a great choice when you want to fetch a bunch of feeds and change them frequently without having to update your pipe. If you haven’t already watched the 2 … Continue reading CSV File Inputs: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo →