In the previous post – OU News Tracking – I briefly described how to get a Yahoo pipe to output a “pubDate” timestamp in the “correct” RSS standard format: Here’s the full expression (actually, a PHP strftime expression) for outputting the date in the required RFC 822 date-time format: %a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z … Continue reading “Managing Time in Yahoo Pipes”
Following up on Displaying Events from Multiple Google Calendars in a Single Embedded Calendar View, and picking up on a quip Jim Groom made in the post that started this thread (“Patrick suggested Yahoo Pipes!, you ever experiment with this? “), I did have a quick play with pipes, and this is what I found.., … Continue reading “Merging Several Calendar iCal Feeds With Yahoo Pipes”
I had an email today from OUseful.info reader Stephen Harlow asking a Yahoo Pipes related question (I get this evry 2-3 weeks, at the moment, and try to answer them as best I can): “My problem is that the URL Builder in Pipes seems to muddle the order of query parameters in the URL… Is … Continue reading “Telling Yahoo Pipes How YOU Want URI Arguments Ordered”
…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)) … Continue reading “Embedding Yahoo Pipes Output With a Single Click”
One of the things that I often use the delicious social bookmarking service for is to push lists of links into web pages, web dashboards, or the feedshow link presenter. However, sometimes it’s important to be able to push the links in a particular order (particularly for the link presenter) rather than the order in … Continue reading “Ordered Lists of Links from delicious Using Yahoo Pipes”
A couple of days ago, @mikechelen asked: “can yql plug in to pipes for improved development, compared with other cloud platforms that accept standard languages?” where YQL is the Yahoo Query Language, a SQL like query language that can run queries on data pulled in from all over the web… There are a couple of … Continue reading “Using YQL With Yahoo Pipes”
Something is happening to me… No time to play myself, so once again I find myself reposting other people’s hacks… but hey, I guess that means loads more to play with when I do have some time to tinker again… Anyway, here’s a quick round-up of a couple of tricks from @hapdaniel showing how to … Continue reading “Supplementing Yahoo Pipes with Javascript Functions”
In the post Supplementing Yahoo Pipes with Javascript Functions I showed a trick I learned from @hapdaniel that allows you to route a pipe through a Javascript programme using the Yahoo Pipes Webservices block and Appjet. But things move on, and it seems like Appjet hosted code will be no more: AppJet users look to … Continue reading “Using YQL Execute to Supplement Yahoo Pipes With Arbitrary Javascript Code”
One of the output formats supported by Yahoo Pipes is a PHP style array. In this post, which describes a way of seeing how well connected a particular Twitter user is to other Twitterers who have recently used a particular hashtag, I’ll show you how it can b used. The following snippet, (cribbed from Coding … Continue reading “Handling Yahoo Pipes Serialised PHP Output”
RDF, SPARQL and the semantic web are too scarey for mortals, right? So here’s a hopefully easier way in for those of us who are put off by the syntactic nightmare that defines the world of formal Linked Data: Yahoo Pipes :-) A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to get one of the … Continue reading “Getting Started with data.gov.uk, Triplr SPARYQL and Yahoo Pipes”
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