[Web4lib] L2 oh yahoo pipes

[Bonaria Biancu]

Errors on Pipes page:

Yahoo is still building it up (the service is in beta), and sometimes
you can get errors that are only due to Pipes' problems. I don't know
if there are also incompatibilities with browsers: I use Firefox
2.0.0.1 (on Windows XP), too, and have no problems...

Library 2.0_DR: in fact I can get the pipe by clicking on the url but,
if I search in Pipes' search engine for "library" or "Library 2.0_DR",
it doesn't give me your pipe among results...

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My Pipe:

I set up the former "Library 2.0" as an example and, testing the
various features, I made some experiments: that's why I included
Yahoo-searching on my blog.
I think this option can be useful if you want to catch data that don't
result in feeds - for example I could use it for searching "opac 2.0"
on my blog, as I don't have in it any "opac 2.0" category (or tag)...

Instead, the number of feeds (= filtering for uniqueness by URL) was
an intentional way to not to have a big number from results as I
didn't found any way to determine the number of output feeds... Do you
have an idea to get it?

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Also interesting the pipe "Cultural Exhibitionism"
<http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/uhXvhje52xGliD9tFG_cUw/> that merges
LibraryThing recent books feed, last.fm recent tracks feed, and
Netflix recent rental activity feed.


2007/2/11, David Rothman <david.rothman at gmail.com>:
> Hi Bonaria-
>
> That's a great idea for an application of Pipes' set of features! Building on that idea, I've made a variation on it.
>
> http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/Ooj1ZV_52xGC1fJK0kqv4w
> Feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/Ooj1ZV_52xGC1fJK0kqv4w/run?_render=rss
>
> This version has some additional sources.  I noticed the filtering for uniqueness by URL limited the output to only seven results, so I filtered instead by link and description instead.  I removed the union and the site-specific yahoo search because that content is already indexed by three other sources in the Fetch module.  I also removed the Content Analysis module because its output wasn't being utilized.  Lastly, I put the sorting module at the end.
>
> My biggest complaint about Pipes is that it is very fussy about feed URLs.  Some more complex search-generated feed from LibWorm give Pipes indigestion, but many can be massaged into working.
>
> Best,
>
> -David
>
> http://davidrothman.net
> http://www.libworm.com
>
>
> On 2/10/07, Bonaria Biancu  <bonariabiancu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Dear friends,
> >
> > may be some of you have come across Pipes <http://pipes.yahoo.com/>: it's a
> > tool created by Yahoo for editing mash-ups in a simple and immediate manner,
> > without needing to know any web language (like ajax or so). I've worked on
> > it some minutes and I've created "library 2.0" <
> >  http://pipes.yahoo.com/people/v8IDqTUxp22_jmQsMmLnfLxs0jZMHg-->, a mash-up
> > that
> >
> > - fetches tag "library 2.0" from data (=feeds) of Flickr, Technorati,
> > Del.icio.us  <http://del.icio.us/> and LibWorm and
> > - searches (via Yahoo) the term "library 2.0" on my blog.
> >
> > Join it, clone it and, if you like, help me to improve it!
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> > Bonaria
> >
> > Bonaria Biancu
> > http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/
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