York University Libraries
Introduction to Yahoo Pipes!
What are Yahoo Pipes?
A tool that allows you to:
aggregate, manipulate and filter content from the Web
deliver this content via RSS, JSON or via other formats
Current Uses at YUL
New Books lists
New Psychology & Neuroscience books at YUL
New books from selected publishers
Workshops (derived from York Events)
Library homepage workshop listing
Scott Library Undergraduate, Graduate & RefWorks sessions
Building a Pipe
Login with your Yahoo id at http://pipes.yahoo.com/ (or create a
Yahoo id once there)
Create a Pipe (Documentation provides support materials)
Commonly used modules:
o Sources: identify the data source (e.g., feed, screen
scraping, etc.).
o Operators: manipulate data in feeds (e.g., union of various
feeds, filtering on a keyword, etc.)
Once your pipe is saved, the output can be formatted as a feed
(e.g. RSS)
Cloning a Pipe
Searching for existing Pipes
Copy a Pipe, edit and make it your own
Once your pipe is saved, the output can be formatted as a feed
(e.g. RSS)
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RESOURCES AND LINKS
A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo
Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes
The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List
Popular Pipes
Search through these published pipes via the search box that appears at the top-left
corner of the Popular Pipes page. You can also browse through pipes that use
particular formats (such as media-video), tags (like twitter or news), and sources (like
api.flickr.com).
Tim’s Pipes
Adam’s Pipes
Meta Search Alerts
New York Times thru Flickr
Recipe Search
Using a Pipe search embedded in a web page.
ALTERNATE SCREEN SCRAPPERS
Dapper
Grazr
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