Introduction Welcome to part 2 of this 2-Part tutorial where we learn how to mashup RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes and style them with CSS. If you haven’t already, you can check out Part 1 of this tutorial here. By default, Yahoo Pipes inherits the CSS stylesheet from your website. But in this tutorial, we [...]
Yahoo Pipes Tutorial Wrap Up
I just want to thank you for choosing the Pipes Tutorial as your source to learn Yahoo Pipes! I hope I could teach you how to use this powerful tool so you can incorporate it into your own websites. If you want to leave feedback about this website or have any questions, please contact me. [...]
Date Builder Module
In Yahoo Pipes, the Date Builder module converts a text string into a date-time value. You can use the drop-down calendar to select a date, type one in, or wire one in from another module like the Text Input module. This module is useful when you need to extract items from a feed by date. [...]
Sub String Module
The Sub String Module allows you to grab only part of a string. You need to enter the starting character position and the ending character position to tell Yahoo Pipes what to grab. In this example, we’re going allow a user to input a YouTube URL into the URL Input Module and extract the “video [...]
String Replace Module
In Yahoo Pipes, the String Replace Module allows you to find and replace text strings. You can specify whether you want the first, last or every occurrence to be searched and replaced. For example, if you have a user input set up, and the user types in “Dolphins”, “Patriots”, “Giants” – you could use the [...]
Sub-Element Module
In Yahoo Pipes, he Sub-Element Module is useful when working on XML files that you only want to extract part of the data from. To use it, enter the XML URL into the “Fetch Data” module into the top of the “Sub-Element Module”, click on it, and you’ll see a list of sub-elements populate in [...]
Sort Module
With Yahoo Pipes, the Sort Module will sort a feed by any item element, such as title or description. You can sort them in ascending or descending order. http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&dfsp=32&from=R6&nojspr=y&output=RSS20&saaff=afepn&siteId=0&afepn=5336121230&customid=&satitle=prada%20messenger%20bag&fbfmt=1&sabfmts=0&sascs=0&fsop=32&fsoo=2 In this example, lets take a look at an Ebay affiliate feed for listings of Prada messenger bags. If we want to stick this feed on [...]
Rename Module
The Rename Module will rename elements of the input feed. Sometimes the input data may not be in RSS format (ie. elements aren’t named “title”, “description”, “link” etc.), and you need to rename them accordingly to convert it to an RSS feed. The Rename Module works similar to the RSS Item Builder Module, Item Builder [...]
Regex Module
The Regex Module is by far the most completed module in Yahoo Pipes. Regex is short for “regular expressions”. Regular expressions allow you to do advanced “search and replace” on various forms of data. Entire books have been written about regular expressions so they go way beyond the scope of this guide, so I will [...]
Loop Module
The Loop Module is a sub-module in Yahoo Pipes. To use it, you can insert another module in the Loop Module and will be run once for each item in the input feed. To add a sub-module into the Loop Module, select the module from the toolbar. If the selected module is valid, a dotted [...]
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