Yahoo! Pipes

Posted on 22 Feb 2009 in Internet

Loving Yahoo! Pipes. I'm using it to modify and republish a few RSS feeds which are then picked up by the AutoBlogged plug-in for WordPress. The first modifies my Favourites feed from YouTube parsing out the movie ID with a regex so I can automatically embed the movie, rather than link to it. Another cleans up a formatting problem in my Facebook Posted Items feed which caused AutoBlogged to choke. Pipes is very nice and has loads of potential. Along with Flickr, I hope Yahoo! pulls through its troubles so their few good assets are preserved.

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2 Responses to “Yahoo! Pipes”

  1. jaf

    02. Apr, 2009

    hey anthony,

    came across your article, and was wondering if you could share that bit of regex to extract the video id?

    Im no regex jedi, and have been struggling with it for a bit :(

    Alternatively just point me in the direction of the pipe and i’ll work it out…

    Any help would be much appreciated.

  2. anthonyjhicks

    10. Apr, 2009

    Hi Jaf, I was using a regex to change the URL with the Movie ID to a view link for embedding – the pipe with the regex is here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0574af8dcee6d5ea94e7cb6cd9274f83
    You’ll need to modify it further to actually acheive what you want though.

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