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 Pipes Tutorial Wrap Up
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Date Formatter Module
This module formats a date-time value. News feeds format their dates and times in different ways. Sometimes you need to format the different dates and times to match the same format. This is where the Date Formatter Module in Yahoo Pipes comes in handy. A wide range of date-time formats called “specifiers” are available. The [...]
Private String Module
The Private String Module is used when you need to input sensitive data into your Yahoo Pipe, such as passwords, usernames or codes that you don’t want to share with others. Private String values are only showed to the creator of the Pipe and can’t be copied. It’s a secure way to hide your data. [...]
Translate Module
The Translate Module in Yahoo Pipes can take text elements from a feed and translate them from one language to another. This module is often used as a sub-module within the Loop module to translate an element of a feed. The Translate Module can also translate user input text. The Translate Module can translate between [...]
Term Extractor Module
The Term Extractor Module in Yahoo Pipes analyzes text strings and tries to pick out the most important words within it. It can either output a single text string with all the crucial words, or as a list with individual words. In this example, we’ll enter a text string into the Text Input Module and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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