Part 1 Introduction This 2 part tutorial will teach you how you can mashup several RSS feeds into one using Yahoo Pipes, then customize the look and feel of it with the magic of CSS. What Is Yahoo Pipes? Yahoo Pipes is a powerful tool that allows you to mashup RSS feeds and content from [...]
Yahoo Shortcuts Module
The Yahoo! Shortcuts Module is great for evaluating words in a text string and categorizing them in Yahoo Pipes. It can create categories that include: PLACE PERSON IDENTIFIER (like phone numbers or email addresses) ORGANIZATION EVENT CONCEPT After Yahoo! Shortcuts Module sorts the text strings into these categories, it includes sub-items that contain additional information [...]
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 Tokenizer Module
The String Tokenizer Module in Yahoo Pipes will split a string into multiple strings using a delimiter (often a single character). For example, if this is your string: Mariners, Yankees, Blue Jays, Nationals And the delimiter is set to a comma (“,”) it will produce 4 separate strings like this: Mariners Yankees Blue Jays Nationals [...]
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 [...]
String Builder Module
The String Builder Module allows you to build a string from multiple substrings – sometimes coded into the Yahoo Pipe, sometimes through user inputs. In this example, lets use the String Builder Module to search Twitter for info on concert/sports tickets. We’re going to build on our previous example from the URL Builder Module. Ready? [...]
URL Builder Module
The URL Builder Module in Yahoo Pipes allows you to manipulate and control how URLs are constructed. URLs are built from three main parts. http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=tktm That URL returns news stories and stock quotes for Tickemaster. To get news and stock quotes for another company, we can simply change the “tktm” to another stock symbol. Lets [...]
Unique Module
The Unique Module will remove duplicate items. If your feed(s) has duplicate content, you can use the Unique Module in Yahoo Pipes to eliminate it and only show it once. http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=sliders+recipe+bacon+mayo&adult_ok=1 http://www.bing.com/search?q=sliders+recipe+bacon+mayo&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n&format=rss In this example, lets look for recipes for “sliders”(mini hamburgers) that contain the ingredients: bacon and mayo. We can grab an RSS feed [...]
Union Module
The Union Module can merge up to five separate feeds into one feed. http://mlb.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/mlb.xml http://www.nfl.com/rss/rsslanding?searchString=home http://www.nhl.com/rss/news.xml http://www.nba.com/rss/nba_rss.xml In this Yahoo Pipes example, lets take a look at the news feeds for the MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA and merge them all into one feed. If we want to simply merge all these feeds together without [...]
Truncate Module
The Truncate Module will return X items (where X is the number you specify) from the top of a feed. It limits the output to the first X items. http://mlb.mlb.com/partnerxml/gen/news/rss/mlb.xml Lets take our same MLB feed from the Tail Module example, and limit it to the first 5 results. All we have to do is [...]
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