Not gonna lie. I've been looking for something like this. It tried it, works really well. I'm gonna build a daily news pipeline for myself.
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#32My biggest use for Yahoo Pipes was filtering podcast feeds - namely, filtering out episodes I don't care about. For instance, a podcast I listen to has episodes where they just talk shop and others where they play Dungeons & Dragons. I really cannot be bothered to care about the latter type.
I actually wrote a little, easily modifiable Digital Ocean function I've been customizing and deploying per feed I want to filter. It feels like a hack, and it is, but it's "good enough". It's been working reasonably well and runs rarely enough that it falls into Digital Ocean’s free tier.
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#33This is nice. Over the years I moved to Noda-RED for this kind of thing, but Pipes was just so much easier to use for quick queries and filtering.
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#34Hit me up if you want to compare notes about Pipes successor implementations ;) And best of luck.
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#35Also check out https://nodered.org/ and https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and open-source software you can run yourself.
Is there a consolidated comparison website for these? There is also n8n that is on the rise now.
Something like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?
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#36Thanks for putting the work into this.
These kinds of software pipelines can be strangely satisfying to implement.
The development style of thinking of stream processing and online algorithms
It's also inspired by mapping and filtering and functional programming with flatmap.
It reminds me of factorio
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#37Also check out https://nodered.org/ and https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and open-source software you can run yourself.
Is it just me but when I see a Rails app, I just walk away. I don't feel like setting that all up.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a consolidated comparison website for these? There is also n8n that is on the rise now.
Something like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted ?
No, that's just a well-curated list. I am thinking along the lines of https://diskprices.com/ where you have all the characteristics/features mapped and can filter down using a faceted search (e.g. implemented using datasette) by what you need. For example, I know that if I need iOS Reminders integration, IFTTT has support for that but not n8n/make/zapier. And I think Make does not support Github integration with webhooks, only API calls. If you have a set of things in mind you'd like to integrate, picking the tool that supports a full combo OOB is a pain in the spreadsheet.
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#40Congrats on the launch! It's awesome to see someone resurrect the best parts of Yahoo Pipes, I really miss the simplicity of those days. Have you thought about supporting other sources, such as websites with tables or social media feeds?
I've been thinking a lot about how LLM agents need some kind of glue to connect them to everyday websites at a level higher than raw HTML. What you’re building here really reminds me of that idea.