Comments on: Yahoo! Pipes could flow to exciting new places with web hooks

By: tamberg

tamberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:51:31 +0000

+1 (at least since AppJet is dead)

By: How to Get Six Pack Fast

How to Get Six Pack Fast — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:52:49 +0000

Hey, nice tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a glass of beer to that man from that chat who told me to visit your site :)

By: Jeff Lindsay

Jeff Lindsay — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:19:22 +0000

Boy am I late to this. Yes! I thought this exact thought Aral! But the cool thing is that using something like Gnip or possibly something like RssFwd+Switchub, you can get just the functionality you’re talking about. Obviously it’s nicer to have less pieces involved, but whatever works!

By: blogcu

blogcu — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:59:11 +0000

aral you are big. thanks

By: Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:03:49 +0000

Hey Aral,

Sorry, I couldn’t find a way to contact you on your site, so I am posting this here. I am a big fan of your blog as a fellow App Engine developer and have subscribed. However, no offense, but I am uninterested in the large volume of Qik.com posts a day that show up in your feed, along with your awesome posts.

Is there any way to filter just the regular blog posts without the Qik content?

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:58:23 +0000

yeah i was thinking about this too actually it seems like logical next step from pipes… it would be sooo easy to build powerful content agrigators…

i would love to see yahoo put a bit more work into pipes… it seems that since it was released it kind of stayed that way (perhaps i have not kept close enough tabs on it).

googles mashup offerings are not cool at all…

my 2cents..

By: Sam Pullara

Sam Pullara — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:55:12 +0000

You can get half of this today using the WebService module in Pipes you can send the output of your Pipe to an endpoint and even further transform it using your own code. Here is an example using Google App Engine:

http://www.javarants.com/2008/04/13/using-google-app-engine-to-extend-yahoo-pipes/

If you want that to periodically call you back when the feed is updated, I suggest that you subscribe to the Pipe in an online RSS reader that will poll for you like My Yahoo, Google Reader or Bloglines. You won’t get deltas because there is no way to track which items a particular endpoint had previously received but it should be easy to track using the GUID in the pipe items.