Questions tagged [yahoo-pipes]

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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Should I use Yahoo-Pipes to scrape the contents of a div?

Given: Url - http://www.contoso.com/search.php?q={param} returns: -html- --body- {...} ---div id='foo'- ----div id='page1'/- ----div id='page2'/- ----div id='page3'/- ----div id='pageN'/- ---/div- {...} --/body- -/html- Wanted: The innerHtml of…
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can't add yahoo pipes to google reader

for some reason the feed won't load anything when I add it to google reader. The pipe is very simple, consists of 2 filters only. Runs fine in yahoo pipes itself, just will not be found in google reader when I attempt to fetch. Anyone seen this…
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IE specific AJAX access issue

I'm having trouble debugging the AJAX request. (It's async because it's a tunnel) Anyways, it works fine on Chrome and Firefox but fails in IE8/9 at least. var responseA = ''; $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url:…
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Tool for .NET like Yahoo Pipes

I'm developing an application that uses Yahoo Pipes to get information. The main problem is that Yahoo Pipes has 200 per 10 minutes limitation and it could be a limitation to my app. I'm wondering if exists any framework to .Net with the same GUI,…
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How can I get the json object which represents a Yahoo! pipe

It seems that Yahoo pipes are represented using JSON. I want to download these JSON objects for some research purpose. Usually a Yahoo pipe is rendered in a browser editor thru a url like this:…
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Cache Yahoo Pipes for iPhone App

Hi I have been creating RSS feeds in Yahoo! pipes to use in an iPhone application that I am building. I have the pipe working fine and containing the right information, I only have one problem. Every time that Yahoo pipes needs to refresh it's data…
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YQL XPath from a Yahoo Pipes Feed

I have this situation where I need to get some data from a webpage and I'm trying to scrape it with Yahoo Pipes to make a rapid prototype. I divided the data with "Fetch Page", then I added a YQL query to a "Loop" so I can browse each result from…
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Yahoo pipes guru help to extract a string and output correctly

I would like to extract a date which is a string in item.description and the output it as item.date? Can someone help me?
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Using Yahoo! Pipes

Have you used pipes.yahoo.com to quickly and easily do... anything? I've recently created a quick mashup of StackOverflow tags (via rss) so that I can browse through new questions in fields I like to follow. This has been around for some time, but…
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Yahoo Pipes - Combine item.content fileds of two RSS feeds based on same item.title

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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Regex with iframe in Yahoo! Pipes

I'm building a Yahoo! Pipe to pull an RSS feed from Reddit which links to some content in the description. I'm using a regex to match the href attribute of the anchor link in an item.description field. The regex I'm using…
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Escaping in yahoo pipes output (rss)

Can anybody tell me what's wrong with my pipe? I am trying to make a hand build RSS from this webpage, and put the full html content of the links to the description tag. The output seems to be ok in the debug panel, but when I run this pipe, it…
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Yahoo Pipes and regex: Why does it work only for my first item?

Here is my pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=a732be6cf2b7cb92cec5f9ee6ebca756 I am currently trying to get the part before the first space to my item.url and the second part will be the title. For instance, first item…
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Is there any good WebService can use to build custom feed based on existing feed?(No yahoo pipe)

I need to customize a feed based on a existing feed. Of course the first answer I found is yahoo pipe. But yahoo pipe can not merge two page's content into one single item.Or just too complicated to accomplish my goal using yahoo pipe. So is there…
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How to access a feed with historic items (like in Google Reader) of a given feed url without authentication?

One feature of Google Reader is that it maintains a history of all items of a subscribed feed and you have access to those items when you keep scrolling down the list. In contrast if you visit the original feed from a blog or a news site, the feed…
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