I am wondering whether this can be achieved by using Yahoo Pipes?
- fetch two RSS feeds
- compare item.title fields of both feeds
- replace item.content with combined content of item.content fields if found similar item.title
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n0n4m3
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just use the union and unique operators. – pguardiario Nov 23 '11 at 08:22
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This is not what I am looking for. I need to merge content of the item.content fields if item.title is similar. – n0n4m3 Nov 23 '11 at 18:36
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It depends on what you mean by similar but I'd say this is too complicated for a pipe. Take a look at ScraperWiki. – pguardiario Nov 23 '11 at 23:54
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I mean if both item.title fileds in rss feeds are completely alike/same. BTW, thanks for pointing out to ScraperWiki! – n0n4m3 Nov 24 '11 at 00:33
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Yes it is possible but will need to involve a subpipe (pipe2 called from pipe1)...
Pipe2- This will takes a string input item title... Will "get Feed2"... filter off items whose title not equal to input item title... return the matching item.
Pipe1 - this will "get Feed1" and loop through all the items passing item title to Pipe2... the result from pipe2, if any, will be in node as loop:anything... add content from there to the content of feed1
Drawback: Theoretically feed2 will be called n number of times where 'n' is number of items in feed1... practically Yahoo pipes use cache so should not be a problem...
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I am scratching my head... I would really appreciate if you could draw sample pipe. I tried all possible variants and could not make it work. – n0n4m3 Nov 26 '11 at 00:35
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Just tried again with a fresh head and it works exactly as I wanted! **bold**Thank you so much! – n0n4m3 Nov 26 '11 at 19:58
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sorry didn't notice your request on time... feeling good that it helped you – Jalaj Jha Nov 29 '11 at 04:25