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 [...]
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 [...]
Create RSS Module
In Yahoo Pipes, the Create RSS Module works similar to the “Create RSS Module” and Item Builder. It allows you to convert data that’s not in RSS – to RSS format by changing the attribute names. To rename a non-RSS element to RSS structure, just select an existing element from the drop down list. http://chilliwackdesign.com/yahoopipes/fetchdata.xml [...]
Split Module
With Yahoo Pipes, the Split Module receives an RSS feed and allows you to split it into two identical output feeds. This is useful if you want to perform different operations on the same feed. The Union Module is the reverse of the Split Module, as it merges multiple feeds into one. In this example, [...]
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 [...]
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