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You can use modern scripting languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. They will never go out of fashion if you want to put together a pipeline (also known as workflow or script :-).
I really don't think Python qualifies as an equivalent replacement for Pipes.
Yahoo Pipes -> Google Reader is now Feedrinse -> Newsblur
Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!) Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job. I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.
https://ifttt.com/
Yahoo Pipes was basically programming with a UI.
Surprised to see no mention of Apache NiFi, Quartz Composer, or Simulink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_NiFi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulink I feel like every few years GUI based workflow tools make a revival, but then slowly die out. In the 1990s the selling point was that your "business logic" could be written by "the business" instead of those expensive p…
Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
It feels like Zapier and IFTTT are the successors to Pipes, but I never quite got the same feeling from them (maybe I haven't checked Zapier in a while). But Pipes was ahead of its time and I'm still not sure of anything that really comes close to what I could do with pipes even back then. Thank you.
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What were the implications of knowing the _callback parameter?
You could invoke pipes from any webpage without worrying about cross-domain access. If you look at some janky JS code[1] I had on my website at the time, you can see what you can do with it. That would basically source ://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=7CTRtbtL3BGX_AHbjknRlg&_render=json&_callback=load_daily_show as a static asset in my page, which would load the JS and call load_daily_show( ) as a result…
It let me ignore lots of Designers limitations and work around them.
Although it was possible to code it all directly in many languages it’s an example of how making something more accessible is good, not just making it possible. Also free cloud running.
Pipes was such a good product and sorely missed. Is there anything equivalent to it today?
You can use modern scripting languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. They will never go out of fashion if you want to put together a pipeline (also known as workflow or script :-).
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https://ifttt.com/
Ifttt is a joke compared to Yahoo Pipes. It can only do a very limited number of pre-defined transformations and it’s only 2 steps. Yahoo Pipes was basically programming with a UI.
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Sorry, one last note. I was a broke college student at the time. I made tens of thousands of dollars with Pipes doing ethical arbitrage. I still miss it, where's our Kickstarter?
arbitrage of what? Sounds interesting