{"id":13,"date":"2009-10-13T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2009-10-13T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:30:42","slug":"yahoo-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/yahoo-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/\">Yahoo Pipes<\/a>, a way to mix and filter input from the web.  This made me pretty excited&#8211;for a while, I&#8217;ve had as a project in the middle of my TODO list, to find a way to rss posts only by a specific author.  In particular, I wanted to have an RSS feed that looked at the tor.com RSS feed, but only kept posts by Liz Gorinsky.  I assumed that this would involve writing a little script to go to this specific feed, parse out the entries, and then just display the ones which had Liz as the author: a good hour or so of work to do the parsing, RSS comprehension, and debugging to get it all to work properly.<\/p>\n<p>However, in under ten minutes at Yahoo Pipes, I&#8217;d made <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=d17682c51fbfe43b104042a0e41eb1be\">this<\/a>, which allows you not just to filter out posts by Liz, but allows anyone to create a new RSS feed to filter Tor&#8217;s feed for any author they input.  It was all done with a very slick visual interface where I literally dragged and linked together the components without writing a single line of code.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be just scratching the surface of Yahoo Pipes&#8217; capabilities, too: besides filtering, they&#8217;ve got widgets for location extraction, regular expressions, combining multiple feeds&#8230;I think this is going to be a pretty powerful tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered Yahoo Pipes, a way to mix and filter input from the web. This made me pretty excited&#8211;for a while, I&#8217;ve had as a project in the middle of my TODO list, to find a way to rss posts only by a specific author. In particular, I wanted to have an RSS feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rss-pipes-yahoo-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}