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Yahoo! Pipes was a web service which allows user to aggregate, filter, and combine web data sources such as RSS feeds and web pages into an output feed. It closed on 30 September 2015.

According to Yahoo!, the service will be closed on August 31, 2015.

Pipe definitions may be downloaded by calling http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=PIPE_ID&_out=json where PIPE_ID is the pipe's unique identifier.

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Yahoo Pipes RSS pubDate showing as "undefined" when viewed through Google Feeds API

I have an RSS feed which I've created in Yahoo Pipes. You can view it here. When viewing that through Google Feed's API, however, the pubDate is coming up as undefined (for avoidance of doubt, I've also tried formatting that with the case…
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Yahoo pipes Unable to parse into a Date object

I was trying to create my first pipe today by following some tutorials i found. I wanted to put all the sport sites i read together and sort them by date. But during the first feed i saw that the items wasn't in order. I checked the RSS feed of the…
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How can I insert into Yahoo! Pipes feed titles?

This query concerns Yahoo Pipes only. I want to search for a series of characters in a feed title, and when I've found it, I want to insert some text. Yahoo Pipe's regex module allows you to search and replace, but I don't want to search and…
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Using Yahoo Pipes to Convert an RSS feed into iCal

I'm looking at the Yahoo Pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tI17l5t63hGwcq4a0EypaA as the basis for converting RSS feeds into iCal format. Looking at the Pipe design, I've got the following questions: The 2nd Loop construct assigns…
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How to get current date and time in Yahoo Pipes?

Is there a way to get current date and time in Yahoo Pipes? I need this to create a pipe with only the newest questions from SO as I don't want to wait for SO team to implement RSS for this...
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How to Access Password/SSL Secured Content through YQL and Yahoo Pipes

The content is secured through basic HTTP authentication: you try to access the URL, you're prompted for user pass by your browser, fill submit, and bam you've gotten the resource. These steps can all be condensed by making a request as follows in a…
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Get price value from a string

I have a string, where price value($544.50) can be anywhere in the string. eg: HP G60-630US Notebook: Laptops | RadioShack.com --> $259.97 (radioshack.com) I need to get the value: 259.97 out of the string For this i tried using some random…
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Yahoo pipes compine Atom and RSS feeds

I have a Yahoo pipe which gets lots of feed inputs, Atom and RSS. Atom has a tag summary and RSS has a tag description. I managed to change summary to description with a loop and a string builder, because my pipe did not get the summary tag when I…
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How to select random set of items on Yahoo Pipes

Does anyone know how to select a random N items from a feed in Yahoo Pipes? I have an RSS feed that has a larger number of objects in it than the photo frame it's destined for can handle. I'm trying to use Yahoo Pipes to collect three of these…
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In Yahoo! Pipes how can I return a single value from a loop that's built with values from every item?

For example, I have a list of items and each item has a name. I want to build a single string that contains a comma-separated list of all the names. In most programming languages, I would loop over the items and append to a value outside the…
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Regex to extract 1129 from '10px;> 1129'

I want to extract the number 1129 from 10px;"> 1129 using Yahoo pipes regex. I am using (\d+) to extract 1129 but what should I use to remove 10px;">?
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Creating an aggregate RSS feed from RSS-less search results

So, say I'm a journalist, who wants some way of easily posting links to stories I've written that are published to my newspaper's website. Alas, my newspaper's website doesn't offer user-level RSS feeds (user-level anything for journalists, really).…
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Use Yahoo Pipes to replace redirect links to resultant ones in an rss feed

I am wondering whether what I want can be acheived by using Yahoo pipes (which I haven't used before). I subscribe to many feeds using Google Reader. I mainly use a news reader for Android called Newsrob and when I see an article I am interested in,…
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How to Use Regex to Ensure Complete Words While Adding a Character Limit to Yahoo Pipes?

I'm pretty new to this, so excuse me if my question isn't that clear. I'm pulling an RSS Feed into Yahoo Pipes and using Regex to modify it. Here's what I'm trying to do: Limit the number of characters in an entry, but... Make sure the item…
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How to convert HTML entities to plain text in YQL or Y! Pipes?

I have the source in html entities (eg: cover) I want to convert them into simple readable plain text (eg: abcdef...) how can i do that using YQL or Yahoo Pipes? (eg: i want to convert cover into cover…
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