Learn more about Yahoo Pipes and RSS
- Hacking RSS: Filtering and Processing Obscene Amounts of Information
- Yahoo Pipes for Social Media Monitoring and Business Benefit
- Power (and Pain) of Yahoo Pipes for RSS Aggregation
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
- Using PostRank: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo
- Pipes within Pipes: A 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