Yahoo Pipes

Learn more about Yahoo Pipes

• Yahoo Pipes for Social Media Monitoring and Business Benefit
• Power (and Pain) of Yahoo Pipes for RSS Aggregation

Learn More: Videos

Short Yahoo Pipes demos delivered as screencast videos. This Yahoo Pipes video series is also available as a podcast on iTunes, and as a separate feed.

• Introduction to Yahoo Pipes: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Quick Vanity Feed: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• User Input: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Using The Debugger: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• CSV File Inputs: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Modifying RSS Feeds: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Filter By Date: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo
• YQL (Yahoo Query Language): 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Using Location Data: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
• Accepting Google Docs Input: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo
• Keyword CSV Files and Searching: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

You can also view the source or clone any of my pipes if you want to find out exactly how I created them. In general, they are pretty easy to tweak, so I would encourage people to clone them and tweak the source to meet your needs.

Yahoo Pipes

I’ve made quite a few Yahoo Pipes lately that do some interesting parsing, filtering, and hacking on RSS feeds:

• Yahoo Pipes Twitter Reply Sniffer
• Twitter Sniffer for Brands
• Techmeme Keyword Alert Pipe
• Comments for One Author on Multi-Author Wordpress Blog
• Identi.ca Reply Sniffer
• FriendFeed Minus Twitter
• FriendFeed Comment Finder
• Twitter Filter for Events
• Find Top Blog Posts Using Yahoo Pipes with AideRSS
• Analysts Writing about Online Communities and Social Media
• Find Flickr Comments by Tag Using YQL in Yahoo Pipes

Custom Search Engines

Here is a custom search engine that I use to assist me with my research: Online Community Thought Leader Search