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Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

#91

Oh man, I use 3 or 4 pipes to filter various RSS feeds. Ugh. Good suggestions for replacements (especially those that don't require my own server) would be much appreciated.

Suggestion for your use case: http://www.feedsapi.com , supports keywords and RegEx filtering among other things.

Thanks. Guess I should have specified "preferably free" too :)

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

#92
While working for YDN I was the one who spilled the beans about the top-secret Pipes _callback parameter, which turned your JSON reply into JavaScript. The service fell over instantly, of course, but far from being upset with me, the team was thrilled with the exposure. Viva Pipes!

Any word on whether YQL will live or die?

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#93

Just a shout out to the awesome Pipes community and some people that really helped it along the way. All the original creators (pasha, JT, ed, daniel), community members and team: hapdaniel, dawnfoster, kentbrewster, mirek, spullara, janluehe, dspark, kevink, brettp, lolo, laurencecoates, earth2marsh, psychemedia, davglass, ssaine, sadaf, ido, nagesh, ameya. I know i'm missing tons more, but just top of my head. You…

Paul, thanks for keeping it running for so long. Pipes was the prime mover behind "suddenly, everything is mashable."

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#95

I worked on Pipes briefly, shortly after it launched. It was really two distinct products rolled into one. The visual interface was groundbreaking and stunning-I think half my team was hired on the strength of that demo. No one could believe Javascript could do that. The backend was an extremely useful tool for munging RSS feeds. With any kind of support, or even benign neglect, the product would have been successful…

I wrote a simple Wordpress plugin that works with RSS feeds. In addition to aggregating fees, Pipes has been a go-to solution when people report feeds that are malformed, have some weird characters or anything that chokes the Wordpress RSS parser (simplepie). People would run them through pipes, which seemed to handle anything and output clean RSS. I'm sad to see it go and it'll be missed by quite a few people who us…

maybe www.busit.com can replace it for that matter

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

#97
post #6

pipes creator here: sad to see pipes shutdown. i am surprised it lasted this long -- it was abandoned years ago. on the positive side, it is nice to see it mentioned in the same sentence as y! maps which used to be a big deal back in the day.

Please suggest alternate. You built a good thing. RSS overall is becoming history.

Checkout https://github.com/olviko/RssPercolator.

RssPercolator is a .NET library used for downloading, aggregating, and filtering RSS feeds. Developed out of frustration with Yahoo Pipes.

- RSS and Atom feed formats - Asynchronous multi-feed download - Multiple sources and multiple destinations - Feed filters (string match, wildcards, and Regex)

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

#99

I worked on Pipes briefly, shortly after it launched. It was really two distinct products rolled into one. The visual interface was groundbreaking and stunning-I think half my team was hired on the strength of that demo. No one could believe Javascript could do that. The backend was an extremely useful tool for munging RSS feeds. With any kind of support, or even benign neglect, the product would have been successful…

> It took a lot of active mismanagement and folly to keep Pipes from living up to its promise. I feel like this unique blend will be Yahoo's lasting contribution to the field of management theory.

DEC/Compaq/HP is really hard to top in the area of mismanagement.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

#100
post #6

pipes creator here: sad to see pipes shutdown. i am surprised it lasted this long -- it was abandoned years ago. on the positive side, it is nice to see it mentioned in the same sentence as y! maps which used to be a big deal back in the day.

Hey Pasha, thanks for your pioneering work!

We (Webflow) are actually considering building a Pipes alternative in the near future, and I'd love to sit down with you and brainstorm some ideas. If you'd be willing to make some time to see a very rough demo, I'd love to get in touch - my email is in my profile.

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