Embedding Yahoo Pipes Output With a Single Click

…sort of…

Here are a quick couple of bookmarklets that I’ve been meaning to put together and only just got around to. They work on the “homepage” of any Yahoo pipe (such as this POIT Report beta recommendations pipe that reverses the order of feed items from the recommendations page of the POIT report (beta)) and do the following:

– preview the feed output of the pipe in a Grazr widget:
javascript:window.location=
“http://grazr.com/gzpanel.html?file=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=”+
window.location.href.split(‘=’)[1]+”&_render=rss”;
[Line breaks added for display purposes – you’ll need to remove them for the bookmarklet to work.]
Clicking on this bookmarklet when you are on a pipe’s homapage will display the pipe’s feed output in a Grazr widget. So what? So you can preview the pipe’s feed output in a “legitimate” feed reader.

– go the Grazr widget embedding page to customise your own embeddable widget container for the pipe’s output RSS feed:
javascript:window.location=
“http://grazr.com/config?file=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=”+
window.location.href.split(‘=’)[1]+”&_render=rss”;
[Line breaks added for display purposes – you’ll need to remove them for the bookmarklet to work.]
Clicking on this bookmarklet when you are on a pipe’s homapage will display the pipe’s feed output in a Grazr widget on the Grazr widget editor page. So what? So you can grab the pipe’s feed output into a “legitimate” feed reader and then get the embed code to embed the feed in your own page.

Remember that if the feed has Slideshare slideshow, audio files or Youtube movies added as enclosures to the feed, the Grazr widget will display them within the widget…

• delicious Feed Enhancer – Auto-Enclosures in Grazr;
• Viewing Presentations in Grazr via Slideshare RSS Feeds.

(I’m not sure if Scribd enclosures are also automatically rendered in Grazr, but they definitely can be if you create your own OPML file… Embed Scribd iPaper in Grazr Demo.)